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"Estonia Pulls off Nationwide Net Voting"
Estonia became the first nation to offer voting over the Internet to every
citizen in its local elections held last week, though only around 1 percent
of the half million votes recorded were cast online. Officials reported no
incidents of glitches or attempted hacks. The system uses an electronic ...
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"Right to Vote vs. Right to Secrecy"
Experts such as former ACM President and National Committee
for Voting Integrity member Barbara Simons warn that a
new email voting system the state of Missouri plans to implement for
soldiers stationed overseas is vulnerable to tampering because the ballots ...
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"Voted Down"
The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) was
organized under the auspices of the Federal Voting Assistance Program
(FVAP) to test whether Americans living overseas could vote over the
Internet and thus avoid falling victim to the vagaries of paper-based ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0409f.html#item10
"Ballot Box Debate"
The success of online voting in the Michigan Democratic Party Caucus Feb.
7, 2004, did not impress the computer scientists involved in the federal
SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment) project. A
month later, the Pentagon decided to table SERVE, which would have enabled ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0331w.html#item1
"Pentagon Drops Plan to Test Internet Voting"
Deep-rooted security issues have pressured the Pentagon to scrap a $22
million pilot initiative to test Internet voting for Americans stationed
overseas, according to officials. An audit of the Internet voting system
conducted by academics in late January concluded that the integrity of an ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0206f.html#item1
"Pentagon Calls Off Voting by Internet"
The Pentagon has scrapped plans to allow U.S. servicemen and citizens
stationed abroad to vote over the Internet for the upcoming presidential
election, following a report from computer-security experts concluding that
the system is too susceptible to tampering. After the report, the overseas ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0204w.html#item2
"Rock the Vote"
Four computer experts recommended that the Defense Department halt its
Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) on the grounds
that the system is susceptible to hacking and errors. But though they were
invited by the Pentagon to appraise the SERVE system, Defense officials and ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0130f.html#item7
"Bipartisan Request Seeks Halt to Internet Voting"
Both the Republican and Democratic party groups representing Americans
abroad have asked the Pentagon to stop its planned test of Internet voting.
Sponsored by the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the $22 million
Internet voting experiment is meant to make it more convenient for overseas ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0123f.html#item1
"Internet Voting System Set for Upcoming Elections Not Secure,
Computer Experts Say"
Four prestigious cyber-security experts--former ACM President
Barbara Simons, Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University,
David Wagner of USC Berkeley, and David Jefferson of Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory--have concluded that the U.S. Defense Department's ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1112w.html#item11
"100,000 Ballots to Be Cast Online"
CanVote President Joe Church calls the Internet-based voting in
the Ontario municipal elections by residents in the easternmost
areas of the province a success. "I believe we're the first to
do a real full Internet election in North America," says Church, ...