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Experts Critique SERVE Internet Voting System
linuxwrangler writes "SFGate is reporting that a critique by four security experts claims that SERVE, a system being developed to allow US citizens overseas to vote via the Internet, is so vulnerable to attacks that it should be scrapped. The other six experts who examined the system declined to issue a report. Nevertheless, the Pentagon stands by the system and plans to use in in elections next month."
Here is the no rego NYTimes link for the article mentioned in the report.
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If they're illegal, we can justly refuse them. If they're not illegal in the purest sense of the word, we follow them. Our job is to say what's right and wrong. That's the job of congress, the president, and the voters. The voters willed President Bush into power. Congress voted for action in Iraq (even if they regret it). Then President Bush sent us to war. It was a democratic proccess.
The front page has a link to send them your feedback (javascript required). Let them know what you think.
http://www.serveusa.gov/public/aca.aspx
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Following this sentence is the definition of what "the people" considered to be a more perfect union in order to secure the blessings of liberty.
Innate in that definition is that "the people" found pure democracy to be an abhorent tyrany to be avoided.
So I'm afraid I cannot refrain from bothering you with the weight of the states and representative republicanism.
It's Constitutional.
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The Pentagon was ordered to create a voting system to replace the current mail-it-in absentee ballot system... because a shit-ton of soldiers in Korea, Germany, Iraq, and all the other myraid places we show up.
It's the Pentagon developing it because the soldiers will be using it. This is not intended to be John Q. Backwoods voting from his AOL.
This is their home page, and here is the here is the law that brought them into being.
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