Risks Seen in Pentagon's Internet Voting Plan

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Risks Seen in Pentagon's Internet Voting Plan

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should abandon an Internet-voting system planned by the Pentagon (news - web sites) because hackers could easily tamper with election results, several computer-science professors said on Wednesday

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040121/tc_nm/tech_voting_security_dc

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I usually don't post but I had to post this one. Please rate it a five.

[arcane1]

1. wow, someone else gave it a really low vote...

must be someone that hates democracy

[leftchick]

2. this is a no-brainer.... but then...

look who is running the pentagon.... :crazy:

[MrSoundAndVision]

3. No surprise

The government also insists on using Windows(tm) technologies, the least secure in the industry. Of course, MS puts politicians into our government so I guess where there is a possibility for money to contaminate our government , it will.

[joeunderdog]

4. Let's just vote by a show of hands.

Are these guys for real?

The beauty of this computer voting thing is, some computer geek will probably turn an election completely upside down just to beat the system. Then it will all stop.

[oneighty]

6. People are assuming

that all computer hacks are republican? Bad assumption I think. This sort of cheating is "Equal opportunity cheating". Think about it those who would steal an election!

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[He loved Big Brother]

5. Why the hell is the military involved in our voting anyway?

[Kelvin Mace]

7. You can find other reasons why

internet voting won't work starting on page 48 of "Blackbox Voting", my modest contribution to the book.

http://thoughtcrimes.org/bbv/bbv_chapter-5.pdf

David Allen
www.plan9.org

Diebold Voting Machines
We vote for you, so you don't have to!

[ninkasi]

8. Just voted...

it's at 4.50 now with 91 votes.

[Sven77]

9. google searches on military voting

The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded a coalition of corporations, led by Accenture, the contract to provide the Internet service that will count the votes of the U.S. military and other civilians in the 2004 presidential election. As many as 6 million voters could use their system. Accenture was formally known as Andersen Consulting, a subsidiary of Arthur Andersen, a company convicted of destroying evidence in the Enron scandal. A major business partner of Accenture’s is Halliburton, Vice president Dick Cheney’s former employer.
http://www.ecotalk.org/SERVEaccenture.htm

The new kid on the block is Populex, which is creating an electronic voting system for Illinois. It has on its advisory board, Frank Carlucci of The Carlyle Group. Carlucci was the former Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, a Deputy Director of the CIA during the Carter Administration, and also worked in the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations. Carlucci’s business partner is former President George H.W. Bush.
http://www.coyotescorner.com/vote4.htm

Since 2001. Accenture and Election.com have been strategic partners "to jointly deliver comprehensive election solutions to governments worldwide," according to their press release. Last month Accenture bought the public-sector election assets of Election.com, which suffered its own scandal this year when it was discovered that Osan Ltd, a firm of Saudi and other foreign investors, bought controlling interest in it. According to Mark Harrington of NewsDay.com, "Several shareholders of the company said they were surprised by the recent buyout and have asked for securities regulators to investigate."
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/072103Landes/072103landes.html