{"id":1051,"date":"2004-01-26T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/serve-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T20:17:08","slug":"serve-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/serve-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"SERVE Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"

PCWorld.com – Online Voting Plan Draws Concern<\/a> by Joris Evers, IDG News Service<\/p>\n

SERVE [Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment] is part of the U.S. Federal Voting Assistance Program. All mail-in absentee election functions have been placed on the Internet.<\/b> This enables about 6 million U.S. citizens overseas, including uniformed services members, to cast their ballots online. The FVAP falls under the U.S. Department of Defense. <\/p>\n

“We’re very concerned that a system we feel is insecure is going to be deployed,” says Barbara Simons, a computer scientist and technology policy consultant. “SERVE is called an experiment, but it is in fact not an experiment<\/i>. There are not paper ballots, there is no way to verify after the fact to see if votes were correctly received and tabulated.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Teenage hackers, terrorists, political parties–essentially anyone with an agenda and enough technical know-how–could subvert an election if the online system is put into use, according to Simons. The Internet is not secure enough for something as serious as electing a government official, the experts agree in their statement. <\/p>\n

“What gives me nightmares is that SERVE might go forward and appear to work correctly … then Internet voting might come widespread for the whole country, perhaps in the 2008 election, and that could be a serious threat to our democracy<\/b>,” Simons says. <\/p>\n

Regardless of the experts’ opinions, the Department of Defense is moving ahead with SERVE. The system could be used for a primary election as early as February, and will certainly be up and running for the November presidential election, says Glenn Flood, a Defense Department spokesperson. <\/p>\n

“We’re not stopping the SERVE program,” he says. “We’re aware of the concerns and we’re calling it a minority report because it is only four out of the ten review group members who felt they had to express themselves.”<\/p>\n

Note this is not just a plan but a real program that will be ready for November this year. This may make Florida in 2000 look straight-forward. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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