BBV: South Carolina, Pentagon Internet Voting In Your Primary

[DUreader]

Per NPR news this morning. Pentagon does not care about potential security threats they are going ahead anyway.


Any chance of a court emergency injunction?

Edwards Supporters who have any juice in his campaign, use it now.

[sybylla]

1. explanation, please

I'm not following. Perhaps a link or something would help.

[whatelseisnew]

2. here is a link from LBN

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36875-2004Jan21.html?nav=hptop_tb

"A Pentagon program for Internet voting in this year's presidential election is so insecure that it could undercut the integrity of American democracy and should be stopped immediately, according to computer-security specialists who were asked to review the $22 million pilot plan intended for about 100,000 overseas voters.
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McLaughlin said she was surprised that the critics would not want the experiment to run through the election to learn from it.
But Simons said that calling the program an experiment ignores the fact that voters will be casting votes that will count. If there is a question about the legitimacy of those votes, she said, the election could be undermined. It is no favor to overseas voters to let them think they have cast ballots when they actually have not, she said. "
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   Participating states all seem R  Ramsey   Jan-22-04 09:22 AM   #1 
Ramsey  (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-04 09:22 AM
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1. Participating states all seem R
NPR had a report on this subject this morning. This pilot program for those out of the country is only being conducted in about 6-8 states. i cannot recall the whole list but it included South Carolina, Utah, and others that all sounded like Republican leaning states. The program would potentially capture 100,000 votes. Sounds like another attempt by the Bushies to interfere with electoral process and shore up their advantage.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=325363

[sybylla]

3. Oh, that.

I thought perhaps the subject was something completely different.

Thanks for the links. Been catching blurbs about it off and on but never really had a chance to read up on the issue.