By Ben Giles
Arizona Capitol Times
Two tech company executives called it the future of voting in Arizona: online voting systems in the digital age that provide faster and more reliable vote counts and make participation in the state’s elections easier than ever before.
They made their pitch Tuesday to the Arizona Senate’s newly formed Election Committee, which is trying to fix problems that plagued voters in 2012, causing some to question whether their votes were counted.
Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, invited the executives from SOE Software, a Texas-based government software firm, and Everyone Counts, a voting software company, and boasted of the value online voting could provide to Arizona. The companies have helped run online elections in other countries and have begun pilot online voting programs in some states.
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