Overseas ISPs Blocked From US Voting Website

An anonymous reader writes "The US Department of Defense is blocking many of the world's major Internet service providers from giving access to the web site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, which allows registered American voters to vote from abroad. The Pentagon is blaming the risk of hackers, but Democrats Abroad aren't happy."

Comments

WTF??

[Malfourmed]

Let me see if I get this straight...

The US government has set up a website to help overseas Americans to vote.

But it's blocked access to that website by overseas ISPs, the ISPs that overseas American voters would need to use to access that site.

But wait! It's okay - only the big ISPs are blocked... just the ones most American voters are likely to use.

And all this to prevent the site from being hacked.

I guess they had to destroy the global village in order to save it.

But we'll know if the Chinese hack it

[commodoresloat]

After all, it will say "Hacked by Chinese" on the home page.