So if I'm a dead person, how do I vote using this new system? Surely we aren't ending a great American tradition :)
Posted on 09/30/2003 12:52:58 PM PDT by honeygrl
VeriSign announced Monday that it will provide key components of a system designed to let Americans abroad cast absentee votes over the Internet.
The contract was granted by consulting firm Accenture, which is working with the U.S. Department of Defense on a voting system known as the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment. When completed, the system will allow absentee military personnel and overseas Americans from eight participating states to cast their votes in the 2004 general election.
"The solution we are building will enable absentee voters to exercise their right to vote," said George Schu, a vice president at VeriSign. "The sanctity of the vote can't be compromised nor can the integrity of the system be compromised--it's security at all levels."
VeriSign has been selected to host the servers and information needed to authenticate voters and ensure that they cast only one vote. Internet and electronic voting systems are notoriously hard to secure. In July, researchers at Johns Hopkins University raised extensive security issues with a leading electronic voting system manufactured by Diebold Election Systems.
Schu stressed that several layers of security will prevent hackers from accessing the system. VeriSign will house the security servers in its own hosting centers. The company will ask military personnel to use their Common Access Cards--the latest form of ID for the military--to access the system and cast a vote. Civilians will use digital signatures.
Overseas U.S. citizens from Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Washington will be able to use the system to cast votes.
The contract was granted by consulting firm Accenture, which is working with the U.S. Department of Defense on a voting system known as the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment.
Bwwahhhaaaa!!! Accenture was formerly known as Anderson Consulting, a spinoff of the Arthur Anderson accounting firm.
Great PR from the Defense Department. (BTW, why is the Defense Department building a voting system?)
"Se habla espanol." Dims will be back in power thanx to all the south-of-the-border voting. Who needs that ol' Voter News Service?
I'd have a magic backdoor which would allow me to specify the percentage of votes cast for the Democrat that I wanted counted for the Conservative/Republican.
ML/NJ
Remember WI, MI, IO, IL and several others in the 2000 Election? The Dems won by just enough to be within or almost within the recount range.
With electronic voting with paperless ballots and ether-ballots, you will be seeing more and more close votes...for the Dems. The question is: how do you have or call for a recount of electronic votes, ether-votes, paperless-hard-copy-less ballots that are in a server?
I can't think of a worse company to use for any part of e-voting. I'd a-ruther have that bastich Clintoon count my votes! Or even someone named Chad from Florida!!
So if I'm a dead person, how do I vote using this new system? Surely we aren't ending a great American tradition :)
I wouldn't mind having some sort of electronic voting system (with paper backup) for the military; if the military chain of command can't be trusted not to commit hanky panky in an election, there are bigger problems than just voting. On the other hand, extending it for other Americans who just so happen to be abroad in Nigeria is just asking for trouble.
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