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US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday

Posted by timothy on from the but-counting-commences-thursday dept.

longacre writes "If you thought online voting in America was a distant pipe dream (nightmare?), think again: the nation's first Internet-based voting system goes online this Friday, just days after the release of the Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security we discussed yesterday. In the first real world run of the Okaloosa Distance Ballot Piloting (ODBP) test program, election officials from Okaloosa County, Florida have set up kiosks in Germany, the UK and Japan where 600-700 absentee voters — mostly military personnel — are expected to cast ballots. Security experts still have many questions, of course, particularly on the potential for interception of voting data while it travels across oceans (via 'secure VPN'), the security of the kiosks ('hardened laptops' with no hard drives and other sensitive components disabled) and the security of the three data centers (one of which is itself housed overseas, in Barcelona, Spain), not to mention the fact that Florida doesn't exactly have a stellar record when it comes to vote counting. Florida's Dept. of State also has a fairly detailed outline of ODBP's components and processes [PDF]."

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  1. Outcome is already determined. by Zero_Independent · · Score: -1, Troll

    Black man cannot end military industrial complex. Republicans will steal the election. Might as well not vote.

    1. Re:Outcome is already determined. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Obama is bought and paid for just like McCain. Do you really think they'd let an independent person into the Whitehouse when 10's of trillions of dollars are at stake?

      Obama's missing records:

      1. Occidental College records -- Not released
      2. Columbia College records -- Not released
      3. Columbia Thesis paper -- Not Available
      4. Harvard College records -- Not released
      5. Selective Service Registration -- Not Released
      6. Medical records -- Not Released
      7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- Not Available
      8. Law practice client list -- Not Released
      9. Certified Copy of original Birth Certificate -- Not Released
      10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not Released
      11. Harvard Law Review articles published -- None
      12. University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
      13. Your Record of baptism-- Not released or Not Available
      14. Your Illinois State Senate records--Not Available

      He's probably not a natural born citizen. That makes him easy to blackmail.

  2. Re:Postback Problems? by ITJC68 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The bigger issue is how to prevent people from voting more then once. With the Acorns out there you never know. The whole election process is screwed up if people can vote more then once. It is fraud and people caught doing it should be banned from voting for the rest of their pathetic lives. They can't secure their own networks in government and we all know how they can screw up the most simple things. *sigh* this will be another hanging chad that will be fought in court I fear....