Cyberballots for next year’s White House race

[Judi Lynn]

Cyberballots for next year’s White House race
Web posted at: 7/13/2003 3:8:43
Source ::: AP
WASHINGTON: Imagine casting a vote for president from a cybercafe in Thailand, an aircraft carrier in the Gulf or a laptop computer at home.

Thousands of people serving in the military and Americans living abroad will have that option next year in the nation’s most extensive Internet voting experiment, viewed by some as a step toward elections in cyberspace.

The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, which began as a tiny demonstration project in the 2000 general election and involved just 84 voters, could give 100,000 voters the chance to cast absentee ballots online in next year’s presidential primaries and general election.

The Pentagon-run programme will be limited to eligible voters whose homes in the United States are in South Carolina and Hawaii, as well as residents in a handful of counties in Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington.

“Internet voting takes just seconds instead of weeks if you were to put that ballot in the mail and send it off,” said Polli Brunelli, director of the Pentagon’s Federal Voting Assistance Programme. “What we’re trying to do is make sure that we have an alternative out there for those people who are unable to vote by mail.” (snip/....)

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[w4rma]

1. Hackerbait (n/t)

[indictrichardperle]

2. LOL

"a pentagon run election in cyber space"

So, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rummy and the OSP "count" the imaginary ballots ?

Jesus.

[goobergunch]

3. Will these be auditable? (n/t)

[gristy]

4. stealing an election will also now take just seconds

"Internet voting takes just seconds instead of weeks if you were to put that ballot in the mail and send it off," said Polli Brunelli

And stealing an election will also now take just seconds.

Fortunately this experiment is "only" limited to 100,000 voters in 2004. Candidate(s) for President (Bush does not seem to be a lock anymore, does he?), need to be encouraged to take a stand for a paper trail for all voting. See the July 2001 report of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project "Voting - What Is, What Could Be", available at http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Reports/index.html