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Pentagon Cancels Internet Voting System
Ben B writes "The Pentagon won't use an Internet voting system for overseas U.S. citizens this fall because of concerns about its security, an official said Thursday. The official, who requested anonymity, said Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made the decision to scrap the system because Pentagon officials were not certain they could 'assure the legitimacy of votes that would be cast.' Computer security experts who last month reviewed the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, had urged the Pentagon to scrap the system, saying it was too vulnerable."
This is good. Internet voting would have made it easier for Al Gore to have those ballots disqualified just like he did in Florida.
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I think they should just do away with anonymous ballots.
as if there is any real need for this anymore. i've never understood why people want to still keep this secret.
maybe you don't want to make it public but if everyone has a serial number and one number is one vote how do you fake out that system?
it's only anonymous ballots that make it possible to scam.
Comon pentagon diebold's vote security is garbage too. Get rid of this stupid idea and replaceit it with another one.
"In Florida they had a big fiasco. They tried to fix it by recounting the PAPER ballots repeatedly. This did not make anyone too happy either. George W. won all of the recounts, including ones done by the independent press, but lots of people still argue a fix was on, Bush stole the election, etc. -- Note:, I'm not arguing that Bush did or did not steal the election, or if he would be the first that had if he did -- I'm focusing on the controversy surrounding it to the day."
That's a rather one-sided portrayal of the situation. It was a fix for a number of well documented reasons. History will not be kind to this Bush administration.
I'm surprised Bush threw out his chance to remain President forever. I can imagine the code that would be put into place with Bush in charge. BushVotes = 3787498 While (Deficit = increasing) { BushVotes = BushVotes + 1 }
The NSA has quantum decryption machines that crack DES-alikes in regular time, not polynomial time. With the NSA budget on the line, and NSA boss Condoleeza Rice's career hanging on by a thread, the threat of silent NSA subversion of Internet voting is too real to ignore. Wolfowitz is just feeling the heat from everyone who is catching on to his rightwing plans to rig the 2004 vote. Perhaps he's afraid of a "fifth column for liberty" inside the US intelligence community, which has been unprecedentedly vocal in public over their own betrayal by Wolfowitz and his Iraqronies.
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The Soviet Union had the one and only impenetrable solution to voting security:
only put one candidate on the ballot.