When West Virginia’s secretary of state assumed office early last year, he set out to solve a problem: Find a way to make voting easier for several thousand West Virginians serving overseas or living abroad.
The traditional method, where service members or expatriates request ballots by mail and submit absentee votes, isn’t tamper-proof and relies on sometimes-spotty postal services. In 2016, for instance, 16% of active-duty U.S. military personnel who requested ballots didn’t receive them, according to the Federal Voting...