A promising road to Internet voting Story Here Archive |
Mercury News Editorial Many reports since the 2000 election have cautioned against proceeding with voting over the Internet until fundamental security problems can be resolved.
The Pentagon ignored the warnings. It's moving ahead with a system that will enable 100,000 overseas residents to vote in presidential primaries and the November election.
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January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Bipartisan Request Seeks Halt to Internet Voting
Groups Fear Citizens Abroad Will Be Compromised
By Dan Keating, Washington Post Staff Writer
In a highly unusual pairing, the Republican and Democratic party organizations for citizens living abroad have banded together against the Pentagon's Internet voting program for the presidential election.
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January 29, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Net has too many holes to cast ballots by PC
Mike Himowitz for SunSpot.net
THE INTERNET is a splendid medium for influencing public opinion, mobilizing political workers or raising money for candidates, as Howard Dean proved early in his presidential campaign (at least before the Great Yowl). But the Internet is a rotten medium for voting.
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Experts: Remote E-Voting Still Workable Story Here Archive |
By Rachel Konrad, AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)?Despite a Pentagon project criticized this week as dangerously vulnerable to hackers and terrorists, reliable Internet voting from overseas still could be workable, computer scientists agree.
But a secure system would not be ready for this year's presidential election, they say.
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The Perils of Online Voting Story Here Archive |
New York Times Opinion: Internet voting has been viewed as a possible cure for some of the ills that afflict the mechanics of American democracy. Recently, the technology has seemed to move ahead of any serious consideration of whether it is actually a good idea to allow home computer owners to choose a president in the same way they order bath towels online or send e-mail to their relatives. But now there are grave questions about whether even the technology makes sense.
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January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Pentagon's Online Voting Program Deemed Too Risky
By Dan Keating Washington Post Staff Writer
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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January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Pentagon Stands by Internet Voting System
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is standing by an Internet voting system it developed for U.S. citizens overseas despite an independent analysis that said it was so vulnerable to attacks that it should be scrapped.
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January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
E-Voting Experts SERVE Up Controversy
By Jim Wagner for internetnews.com
Officials at the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) moved quickly to dispel the e-voting gloom created by a group of computer scientists who find the Internet too vulnerable to attack, publishing a report earlier this week recommending an immediate halt to Internet voting.
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January 21, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Report Says Internet Voting System Is Too Insecure to Use
By JOHN SCHWARTZ, NY Times Technology Reporter:
A new $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure and should be abandoned, according to members of a panel of computer security experts asked by the government to review the program.
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January 21, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Federal remote voting system called flawed
CNN's Daniel Sieberg and Alex Walker contributed to this report.
(CNN) A federally funded Internet-based voting system due for release in less than two weeks is inherently flawed and should be scuttled because of weak security, according to a report by a team of computer scientists.
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January 20, 2004 Story Here Archive |
A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic
Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)
Authors Dr. David Jefferson, Dr. Aviel D. Rubin, Dr. Barbara Simons and
Dr. David Wagner
This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense's FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program).
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