U.S. soldiers' overseas votes ripe for fraud [View All]

[Mark E. Smith]

Mercury News Sep. 28, 2006

Just weeks before the November election, the Pentagon is struggling
to fix its system for handling the votes of soldiers overseas.

Yet experts in computer security and election technology say the
Pentagon's current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected
in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a
system that is ripe for fraud.

During the next six weeks, thousands of service members are ex-
pected to fax or e-mail ballots over international communications
networks that are susceptible to interception and tampering, putting
those votes at risk.

"I can't for the life of me figure out how the Defense Department
decided this is the right thing to do," said Doug Jones, an associate
professor of computer science at the University of Iowa.

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