More on the Missouri military vote theft plan from comp.risks digest

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http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.52.html#subj5

"Missouri's Secretary of State Matt Blunt (who also happens to be a candidate for the Governor of Missouri in the November election) has announced plans to allow Missouri voters in the military to send in their ballots by unencrypted e-mail. A supposedly trusted third party (Omega Technologies) will handle the unencrypted ballots and redistribute them to the appropriate ballot counters. Apparently North Dakota is also contemplating a similar scheme. Those voters will have to sign a waiver acknowledging that their votes need not be kept secret.

I suspect regular RISKS readers will be (1)
astounded, (2) horrified, and (3) concerned that certain e-mail messages could be altered or "accidentally" lost, (4) concerned that the acknowledged loss of privacy might be used to coerce votes or prompt vote selling, (5) etc. There are reportedly at least six million eligible overseas voters who might wish to have the instant satisfaction in believing that their votes might be counted, but there are also at least six million votes that might
thereby be subject to compromise."

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok Ok not even me

a not so comptuer savy person, woudl send something like this over the wire un encrypted... ok they want to stael it and they are not making any bones bout it no more