Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen

Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when a woman approached him with an unusual offer. She said she represented a wealthy client interested in funding voting systems that would encourage bigger turnouts. Did he have any ideas? “I told her you should stay away from internet voting, because it’s really, really hard,” he says.

Later he learned who had sent her. It was Bradley Tusk, a New York City political…