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• The Dangers Of Internet Voting .
• Internet voting might be more convenient and mobile than currently used voting technology, but there are complex security and reliability obstacles that for now impede the Internet's use in public elections, says a report commissioned by the National Science Foundation. It says trials should proceed but remote voting from home or the workplace will not be a viable alternative in the near future. Internet voting systems fall into three categories: .
• Poll site voting (in which traditional election locations are augmented with Internet technology), .
• Kiosk voting (in which Internet terminals would be placed for convenience at non-traditional sites such as malls), .
• Remote voting (in which citizens could vote from virtually any Internet terminal, including at home or work). ...
• Regarding the feasibility of these options, the report says poll site Internet voting systems could be responsibly deployed within the next several election cycles. But authenticating a voter's identity and preventing on-site coercion of voters are issues related to kiosk voting that still need to be resolved. Remote Internet voting systems pose significant risk and should not be used in public elections until substantial technical and social science issues are addressed, says the report. And Internet-based voter registration poses significant risk to the integrity of the voting process, and should not be implemented for the foreseeable future. Source: "Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda," March 2001, Internet Policy Institute. ...

• Proponents of Internet voting argue that allowing citizens to vote over the net will raise voter turnout by further decreasing the costs of voting.   However, several issues raised in this week’s readings cause me to question whether Internet voting will have as dramatic of an effect as proponents would like the public to believe.    While e-voting will reduce costs, in its current state, it does not correct the problems that have depressed voter turnout during the twentieth century, and it may also cause new problems. ...
•   Unfortunately, Internet voting offers no solution to this problem other than arguing that it will be easy for all groups to find political information on the net, thereby gaining the knowledge necessary to participate.    Thus, while Internet voting may reduce the costs involved with voting, it does nothing to raise the incentives for non-voters to participate in elections. ...
•   As Texiera explains in The Vanishing American Voter, Americans vote less because although the costs of voting have decreased, nothing has been done to increase the benefits of voting.   The decrease in perceived benefits is a result of the changing individual characteristics of the American voting public, such as drastic decreases in both social connectedness and political connectedness.   Unfortunately, Internet voting is yet another measure aimed to decrease the costs of voting.   I am sure that the increased ease of Internet voting will help to offset some of the decline in voter turnout,  however, I find Texiera’s arguments on the need for increased benefits very convincing.   In order for Internet voting to be as successful as proponents argue, politics on the Internet must be able to effectively involve all citizens in the political process, and convince them that the government is responsive to their needs and desires.   In “Are We Ready for Internet Voting” Phillips concurs with this point.   Phillips argues that in order for Internet voting to be successful, the government must first prove its responsiveness to American citizens. ...
•     The effect of “The Digital Divide” is yet another question that must be considered when discussing Internet voting.    It is possible that Internet voting may serve to disenfranchise a great number of minorities and poor citizens, as many members of this group are not well connected to the Internet.   Phillips and Kantor both argue that this is a question that must be dealt with before Internet voting is put into effect because the results could further decrease voting turnout.   However, Weisberg argues that e-voting will not completely replace r-voting until all Americans are wired to the Internet.   Additionally, Stassman states that technology would allow un-wired citizens to vote over the Internet at traditional polling locations, thus there is no reason to worry over “The Digital Divide. ...   A large part of the appeal of Internet voting is that it will reduce the costs of voting, thereby increasing voter turnout.   Utilizing their reasoning, Internet voting will simply make it easier for the elite to vote, while doing relatively nothing to motivate the great majority of citizens who currently are not voting. ...

• Directs Secretary of State to conduct study of Internet voting. ... A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to Internet voting. ... { + (1) The Secretary of State, in consultation with county clerks and other county officials in charge of elections, shall conduct a study to determine the feasibility of using the Internet to conduct elections in this state. The study shall consider: (a) The security, integrity and secrecy of electronic ballots, including voter authentication, ballot secrecy, ballot integrity, prevention of multiple voting, ballot processing, vote transport and storage, use of digital signatures and encryption technology, the effect on voter registration and recounts, and the security of Internet voting machines and Internet voting systems; (b) How to phase in Internet voting so that it might include both public-place Internet voting and remote Internet voting; (c) Software, hardware and other system design requirements; (d) Accessibility of Internet voting to all electors; (e) The impact of Internet voting on county elections officials; (f) The fiscal implications of any comprehensive or incremental approach to Internet voting; and (g) Any other matter the secretary considers important in conducting the study. ... (3) For purposes of this section: (a) 'Internet voting' means the casting of a secure and secret electronic ballot that is transmitted to elections officials using the Internet. (b) 'Internet voting machine' means the computer hardware that allows an electronic ballot to be cast over the Internet. (c) 'Internet voting system' means an election system that uses electronic ballots and that allows voters to transmit their voted ballot to elections officials over the Internet. (d) 'Public-place Internet voting' means the use of Internet voting machines at central locations. (e) 'Remote Internet voting' means the use of an Internet voting machine to cast an electronic ballot over the Internet using a computer that is not necessarily owned and operated by elections officials. ...

• Security experts nix Internet voting plan.
• — An Internet voting scheme called Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment may be dead, at least according to an independent report. ...
• The report was released by four whistle-blowing security experts hired by the Federal Voting Assistance Program to evaluate the program, also know as Serve. ...
• "We were hired to evaluate the Serve Internet voting system, and to recommend repairs we thought were needed to make the system secure, but we found that its based on consumer-level PCs and operating systems that cannot be made secure. A worm or virus like the ones we've seen attacking the Internet lately could easily change your vote without you knowing it. ...
• Their report represents a minority opinion of the Security Peer Review Group, an advisory group formed by the Federal Voting Assistance Program to evaluate Serve. ...
• The critics said using consumer-grade components already under attack by hackers worldwide makes the online voting system dead-on-arrival. ...
• According to Wagner, the computer security experts tried a range of methods to fix the security holes in the Internet/PC/Windows environment, but concluded that it could not be done. Instead, Wagner said secure lines independent of the Internet and consumer-grade operating systems should be installed at foreign embassies and military bases. ...
• "We tried every imaginable method of providing secure voting over the Internet using PCs, but we have concluded that it can only be done with secure lines. It won't be as convenient as using the Internet, but it will be secure," said Wagner. ...
• The program's stated goal is to provide 6 million overseas voters with access to online absentee voting. ...

• Internet Voting.
• Computerized Voting Debate, hosted by The Democracy Online Project.
• Elections Upgrade - an Intranet voting proposal by the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N. ...
• 03/27/2001 "Americans Want Modernized Voting System - Poll " (Reuters) .
• "Americans think their voting system needs a technological overhaul but draw the line at voting on the Internet, a new study released on Tuesday showed. According to the report, 69 percent of the 1,000 Americans surveyed in early March believed using new technologies for voting would produce more accurate results. An almost equal number -- 61 percent -- said they would approve tax dollars if it was used to improve the existing voting system. ...
• 03/06/2001 "Report: Web voting at home, work not the answer" (AP) (CNN) .
• "Voters should not be allowed to cast ballots through the Internet from home or the workplace because significant questions about security, reliability and social effects remain, says a report commissioned by the National Science Foundation. The report urged elections officials to resist pressures to embrace "remote Internet voting systems" as the technological cure for the problems that afflicted the presidential election in November, such as faulty voting systems and inconsistent standards for ballot counting. ...
• ""E-voting requires a much greater level of security than e-commerce -- it's not like buying a book over the Internet," said C. ... "Remote Internet voting technology will not be able to meet this standard for years to come. " The report also cautioned that Internet-based voting registration poses "a risk to the integrity of the voting process and should not be implemented in the foreseeable future. ...
• "Overall, it seems unlikely that electronic voting would fix the kind of problem that happened in Florida, where the margin for error in the voting systems was greater than the margin of victory. Of course, e-voting would have spared all those dedicated poll workers from hours of ballot checking, prevented the seemingly endless court battles over recounts and kept chad jokes at bay. ... In a narrow election decided wholly by electronic voting, there would be no comparable way to convince people that every vote really did count. ...

• Response to: Internet Voting is no 'Magic Ballot'.
• edu/~jones/voting/ .
• First, I wish people would stop talking about Internet voting as if it was a completely different animal. ... Traditional absentee voting and vote by mail are also done from the home, raising problems of difficult voter authentication and insecure ballot transmission. Direct recording voting machines and precinct-count mark-sense and punched-card ballot systems also use computers and many now offer transmission of totals over public telecommunications systems (frequently phone and radio). We should address these risks across the board! The way things are going, I'm afraid we'll end up quite properly stamping out the threat of immediate Internet voting while leaving the significant flaws of these other voting systems largely un-addressed! .
• We should treat Internet voting as direct recording absentee voting using electronic communication of ballots and vote totals, and we should address the threats it raises by fixing the laws regarding absentee voting, direct recording voting systems and use of electronic communication in elections! Yes, the Internet does introduce some new problems, but these other problems are far, far broader! .
• A voter casts only one ballot, and for the voter, the voting experience is a peak moment. ...

•  Elections > Internet Voting.
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• Electronic Voting Page - contains a list of papers, books, and links about electronic voting. ...
• Internet Voting Technology Alliance (IVTA) - dedicated to acting as an information center, discussion forum, and voluntary standards setting body and web publisher focused on Internet voting. ...
• PFIR Statement on Internet Voting - outlines issues and concerns of People For Internet Responsibility regarding Internet voting. ...
• Verified Voting - aims to inform the public of the problems with relying on electronic voting machines to record and count votes, without the backup of a voter-verifiable audit trail. ...
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• The Internet Voting project has finished its work. ...
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• Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting, by R. ...
• The Future of Internet Voting, a symposium co-sponsored by Brookings and Cisco Systems, Inc. ...

•  Elections > Internet Voting.
•  Directory > Government > Politics > Elections > Internet Voting.
• Electronic Voting Page - contains a list of papers, books, and links about electronic voting.
• Internet Voting Technology Alliance (IVTA) - dedicated to acting as an information centre, discussion forum, and voluntary standards setting body and web publisher focused on Internet voting.
• PFIR Statement on Internet Voting - outlines issues and concerns of People For Internet Responsibility regarding Internet voting.
• Verified Voting - aims to inform the public of the problems with relying on electronic voting machines to record and count votes, without the backup of a voter-verifiable audit trail.
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• : influence of voters" be changed by internet voting? .
• : How would internet voting using strong crypto id's .
• One example of this would be domineering household members "supervising" the voting of other franchise holders. Or how about union bosses "supervising" the voting of their rank-and-file? .
• Futhermore, I'm convinced that voting systems would probably be a priority target of hackers.
• How would "undesirable : : influence of voters" be changed by internet voting? : : How would internet voting using strong crypto id's : : "make it easier for voter fraud"? : : I'm not saying there aren't problems with the current system, but adding this technology to the mix isn't going to get rid of the influence problem. ... One example of this would be domineering household members "supervising" the voting of other franchise holders. Or how about union bosses "supervising" the voting of their rank-and-file? : : As for the fraud, I think the lack of technology in some of these systems limits the amount of fraud that does occur. ... : : Futhermore, I'm convinced that voting systems would probably be a priority target of hackers. ...

• Home > News > Politics Internet voting is called unwise Boston Globe WASHINGTON -- The US government should abandon an Internet voting system planned by the Pentagon because hackers could easily tamper with election results, several computer-science professors said yesterday. Andy Sullivan 1/22/2004 --> RISK FACTORS Internet voting is called unwise.
• WASHINGTON -- The US government should abandon an Internet voting system planned by the Pentagon because hackers could easily tamper with election results, several computer-science professors said yesterday.
• Military personnel and other US citizens located overseas will be able to cast their ballots online for some primary and general elections this year under the Defense Department's Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, rather than casting absentee ballots by mail.
• But their votes could be vulnerable to a range of cyber-attacks that have already rocked banks, Internet providers, and other businesses that operate online, said four researchers who serve on an advisory panel for the program.
• "Because the danger of successful large-scale attacks is so great, we reluctantly recommend shutting down the development of SERVE and not attempting anything like it in the future until both the Internet and the world's home-computer infrastructure have been fundamentally redesigned, or some other unforeseen security breakthroughs appear," they said. ...
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• Internet Voting - The End of Democracy?  .
• Despite inherent and increasingly blatant security risks, Internet voting companies are steadily gaining control over the U. ...
• Rebecca Mercuri, one of the nation's leading experts in computer voting technology. ... (there are) problems with all forms of remote voting include the dangers of coercion, vote selling and impersonation. The Internet introduces additional authentication issues. ...
• In the wake of recent voting machine fraud and assorted scandals, Internet voting - the most vulnerable technology to election fraud - is flying under the radar. ...
• Neither the Federal Election Commission (FEC) nor the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) publicly lists one of the largest Internet voting providers, Bermuda-based Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting of Arthur Andersen/Enron fame). ...
• Also, there are no mandatory, or voluntary, government/industry standards that specifically address Internet voting technology. Even the federal standards that apply to other voting systems, are outmoded and voluntary. ...
• Within the ranks of those who have voiced concerns about touchscreen and optical scanning voting equipment, questions are still being raised -- where is this taking democracy as we know it?.
• The same scientist who found serious flaws in Diebold software, also had a business relationship with leading worldwide supplier of Internet voting technology, VoteHere. ... Two years ago, Rubin participated in The National Workshop On Internet Voting. That workshop blazed the trail for Internet voting. ...
• Today, Internet voting is being used by civic, labor, and business organizations to elect their governing bodies.
• It has about 600 customers that use its Internet voting service, including the Democratic National Committee, the Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union, the Sierra Club, IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. ...
• So far, the history of Internet voting has been short, but it's sure to be expanded as the new standard for "democracy. ...

•   Internet Voting Plan Scrapped.
• While they initially dismissed the criticisms of the online voting system they were using, the Defense Department has realized the negative publicity over this one was beginning to look bad. They've now officially scrapped their plans to offer online voting to Americans overseas this fall. ...
• scrapped their plans to offer online voting.

• e-voting.
• E-voting (sometimes called electronic voting, online voting, or Internet voting) is an election system that uses encryption to allow a voter to transmit his or her secure and secret ballot over the Internet. Critics of electronic voting express concerns about Web security and the lack of equal access to the Internet for all citizens (see digital divide). Advocates of e-voting cite the potential for reduced election costs, as well as the potential for increasing civic participation by making the voting process more convenient. ...
• At this time, e-voting is used primarily for conducting non-governmental elections, although a number of citizens in Switzerland and the United States (Arizona, parts of Alaska and California) have had the opportunity to be pioneers in the submission of governmental election ballots over the Internet, with varying degrees of success. Experts around the world agree that in governmental elections, the need to create a standardized, secure process for the verification, collection, and counting of votes must be addressed satisfactorily before online voting becomes a viable option. ...
• There are several groups working to create online voting standards. In the United States, the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) at the Pentagon, the California Secretary of State Internet voting task force, the NASED ITA subcommittee, and several third-party vendors are researching and testing voting models and software applications and examing standards to make online voting an option in time for the 2004 Presidential election. An international group of experts and companies, called The Internet Voting Technology Alliance is working on an open peer review of standards that could be used in e-voting throughout the world. ...
• As of this writing, each of these groups has a different solution with different security standards and risks, although there are three Internet electronic voting models that each group seems to feel holds promise: automation of the current process, electronic voting at a secure Web site, and electronic voting at regional centers. ...
• "The future of Internet Voting" was a symposium co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and Cisco Systems, Inc. ...
• Lorrie Cranor's Web page contains a list of links to Internet sites with e-voting related information. ...
• The UK's first trials of an online voting system will take place by the 2001 election. ...
• The Internet Voting Technology Alliance is an international group examining standards used in voting over the Internet. ...
• com provides links to more articles about electronic voting. ...

• Pentagon Drops Internet Voting.
• Wire reports are coming in indicating that the US Department of Defense will be dropping the controversial SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment) electronic voting plan for Americans abroad. The program was to have allowed US service-persons and civilians overseas to cast votes via an Internet-connected personal computer.
• The 22 million dollar pilot was to have allowed US citizens from seven states to vote via the Internet. ... (see Critics Claim Pentagon Internet Voting System Too Weak For Strong Democracy. ...
• Avi Rubin, co-author of a critical report on the state of internet voting is quoted as saying, "I do appreciate the need for providing better absentee voting for military personnel and civilians overseas. I just don't think that the Internet was the way to do it. ...
• Internet voting advocates are quick to point out that the Pentagon has issued a green-light to continue investigating techniques for electronic elections, it's only the SERVE program that has been scuttled.
• Internet security researchers are still sceptical about the likelihood of finding a secure scheme for Internet voting. Barbara Simons, an Internet security researcher and co-author of a critical report on the SERVE program laments, "There are two main problems: one is that PCs (personal computers) are insecure. And the second is that the Internet is insecure. ...
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• Pentagon Cancels Internet Voting System.
• Citing security concerns, the Pentagon has canceled Internet voting that would have involved as many as 100,000 military and overseas citizens from seven states in November, a Defense Department official said Thursday. ...
• Experts: Remote E-Voting Still Workable.
• Electronic Voting Firm's Site Hacked.
• The official said alternative voting systems will now be considered, possibly using the Internet as well. ...
• "This is now an opportunity to demonstrate that the Internet is viable, valuable and secure enough to use for filing absentee ballots," said Meg McLaughlin, the Accenture unit's president. "We are confident that sending absentee ballots via the Internet is just as secure and reliable as sending them by mail. ...
• "We certainly share their desire to make sure that our military people have the opportunity to vote in the national election, but it's always been our contention that we're not doing them any favor by providing them an insecure system on which to vote," said Barbara Simons, one of four co-authors of the critical Pentagon voting report and a former president of the Association for Computing Machinery. ...
• The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, was designed to help overseas citizens vote in U. ...
• In a smaller Internet voting trial conducted that same year by the Pentagon's Federal Voting Assistance Program, 84 citizens submitted online ballots to Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. ...
• Any Internet-connected computer running Windows operating systems, including at a cybercafe, could have been used for voting. ...
• The report from Simons and three other experts on a 10-member Pentagon peer-review panel said Internet voting could not be made secure -- at least using today's technology -- primarily because the Internet and personal computers are inherently vulnerable to hackers and viruses. ...
• Doug Lewis, executive director of the Houston-based Election Center research group, said the Pentagon decision will likely set back Internet voting. Many states had been awaiting the results of the trial before committing to widespread online voting. ...

• Talk:Voting system.
• A WikiProject is being developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Voting Systems for further work on this and other voting system related pages. ... Voting system will be used to discuss the dry, mathematical aspects, election to discuss specifically human elections, probably their history, geography, etc. ... I'm not sure how much of a Proportional representation to recreate on Voting system . ...
• Could this eventually belong to a separate page? Voting systems are usually discussed in the context of electoral reform or grassroots democracy, or as an alternative to consensus decision making, but the tradeoffs in choosing a voting system are so complex that there is no easy summary of how these various debates interact with system characteristics. ...
• Removed because the first sentence is not necessarily true; there are many environments in which voting systems are discussed; the second part is discussed already, and better, in the paragraphs below. ...
• But I'm wondering, are coalitions ever actually a formal part of the voting system, and not just political or parliamentary entitites which make agreements on candidates and/or lists to submit to a voting system (in which case, they're a bit off-topic)? .
• Also, some voting systems encourage or discourage coalition government (eg proportional representation tends to create coalitions, first past the post tends to create a two party systeam). ...
• DanKeshet 14:50 8 Jul 2003 (UTC) A grumble about a change that I'm not bold enough to undo myself: disapproval voting is a valid voting topic but is not a "system" in the same sense as the others listed here. ...
• The current Voting System page doesn't allow for this very well without an addition to the table of contents. My thought on this is to add a voting methods section under the aspects of voting systems and have 3 sections: .
• Voting methods .
• Absentee voting: Internet Voting: DRE voting: Paper ballot: .

• Internet voting could be the wave of the future, but not everyone agrees.
• TORONTO (CP) - An Internet company is hailing online voting as the electoral wave of the future. ...
• , during November's municipal election says online voting was a success, Adam Froman, president of Delvinia Interactive, said Monday. ...
• "And when we asked voters whether they would be interested in voting online in future elections, the response was unbelievable. ...
• Not everyone is won over by the idea of online voting. ...
• "Right now it is difficult to perpetrate fraud, because a person has to show up at a polling station, so they can't be engaged in multiple voting," he said. ...
• "But once you open it up to the Internet . ...
• Wiseman pointed to Internet voting irregularities that cropped up in the Canadian Alliance leadership campaign which Stephen Harper won. ...
• Wiseman said Harper's camp in the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada is opposed to using the Internet for that leadership vote. ...
• "There were a lot of shenanigans going on (in the leadership vote ), especially with respect to Quebec and manipulation of Internet voting," he said. ...
• But a report commissioned in 1998 by Elections Canada to explore voting alternatives did have trepidation about security. ...
• The report by KPMG Sussex Circle favoured telephone technology and even kiosks similar to bank machines for use in voting instead of the Internet. ...
• Froman stopped short of suggesting the Internet should replace all other kinds of voting. ...
• "Internet voting should not be expected to be. ...
• Wiseman admitted Internet voting is bound to become more popular. ...
• "There's the whole social aspect of democracy and I feel when people go to the polls they sense there are other people there (voting)," he said. ...

• Pentagon cancels Internet voting testToo many concerns about ballot security, official saysThe Associated Press Updated: 10:27 p. ... 05, 2004Citing security concerns, the Pentagon has canceled Internet voting that would have involved as many as 100,000 military and overseas citizens from seven states in November, a Defense Department official said Thursday.
• The official said alternative voting systems will now be considered, possibly using the Internet as well. ...
• â œThis is now an opportunity to demonstrate that the Internet is viable, valuable and secure enough to use for filing absentee ballots,â � said Meg McLaughlin, the Accenture unitâ ™s president. â œWe are confident that sending absentee ballots via the Internet is just as secure and reliable as sending them by mail. ...
• â œWe certainly share their desire to make sure that our military people have the opportunity to vote in the national election, but itâ ™s always been our contention that weâ ™re not doing them any favor by providing them an insecure system on which to vote,â � said Barbara Simons, one of four co-authors of the critical Pentagon voting report and a former president of the Association for Computing Machinery.
• The $22 million Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, was designed to help overseas citizens vote in U. ...
• In a smaller Internet voting trial conducted that same year by the Pentagonâ ™s Federal Voting Assistance Program, 84 citizens submitted online ballots to Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
• Any Internet-connected computer running Windows operating systems, including at a cybercafe, could have been used for voting.
• The report from Simons and three other experts on a 10-member Pentagon peer-review panel said Internet voting could not be made secure â ” at least using todayâ ™s technology â ” primarily because the Internet and personal computers are inherently vulnerable to hackers and viruses.
• Doug Lewis, executive director of the Houston-based Election Center research group, said the Pentagon decision will likely set back Internet voting. Many states had been awaiting the results of the trial before committing to widespread online voting.
• Michigan Democrats already have begun online voting leading up to Saturdayâ ™s caucuses, which are run by the party and are thus not subject to election certification requirements.
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• A new internet voting system designed to let overseas US military personnel cast their absentee ballots online was heavily criticized in a report today, suggesting that it's nowhere near secure, and nothing can be done to make it secure, until some fundamental aspects of the internet are changed. ...
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• Pentagon Internet voting plan panned.
• Pentagon Internet voting plan panned 01/22/2004 11:59.
• A report released by a group of computer security experts criticizes the Pentagon's plans to offer Internet voting to personnel deployed overseas.
• Report Finds Risks in Internet Voting by Americans Overseas.
• Report Finds Risks in Internet Voting by Americans Overseas 01/22/2004 01:12.
• A panel of computer security experts said that a $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure.
• CBS News | Experts Pan Web Voting System | January 22, 2004 07:57:23.
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• Internet Voting .
• today partnered with the Brookings Institution to sponsor a symposium on the Future of Internet Voting, exploring how e-democracy will reshape American politics and elections.
• "The Internet waits for no one no country, company or individual," Cisco CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address opening the forum. "The Internet has redefined traditional business models and is now beginning to reshape the political process. ... I believe that the politicians who learn to harness the power of the Internet will emerge as our next generation of leaders. ...
• All panelists agreed that the Internet offers exciting opportunities to reenergize the American electorate, providing voters more information about their government and elections. Many look to the Internet to reverse the 40-year trend of declining voter turnout, increase access for disabled and elderly voters, and reduce costs and complexity for states and localities.

• 07 March 2001 Internet Voting Won't Solve U. ...
• (New study urges caution in movement to electronic voting) (1050) By Charlene Porter Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- Internet voting will not provide a short-term solution to the problems in U. ... voting procedures that became apparent after the 2000 presidential election, according to findings released March 6 by the Washington-based Internet Policy Institute (IPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. A system that would allow voters to cast ballots from their home or office computers would pose "substantial security risks," according to the Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting. ... The report conveys a strong warning about Internet voting from homes and offices, at the same time it details potential benefits for more limited forms of cyberspace ballots if the proper control and security systems can be developed. The IPI report suggests that Internet voting may make casting a ballot more convenient and thus boost participation in an electoral process that has been steadily eroding over the last several decades in the United States. Vinton Cerf, co-inventor of the protocols that allow computers to communicate with each other, enabling creation of the Internet, underscored that Internet voting has the potential to save both time and money. When it comes to ensuring accuracy in a final ballot count, Cerf, also a member of the IPI board of directors, added that Internet voting "will beat all the mechanical systems. " The IPI report distinguishes three types of Internet voting: voting on computer terminals at traditional polling sites; voting on terminals located in kiosks at non-traditional locations, such as libraries, public buildings and shopping malls; and remote voting, allowing a citizen to cast a ballot from any computer. The study panel envisioned different logistical, technological and social problems with each different type of voting, and recommended the near-term pursuit of Internet voting only at traditional polling places. IPI researcher David Cheney said, "Poll site Internet voting offers some benefits" and could be responsibly deployed in the not-too-distant future. "We think it's very appropriate to do experiments" at the voting precinct level very soon, Cheney continued.

• Pathway - ACT Government Home Elections ACT Home Elections Electronic voting and counting Development of the system.
• Electronic voting and counting.
• Electronic voting .
• EVACS is the computer system that provides for electronic voting and electronic counting for ACT Legislative Assembly elections. ...
• The successful implementation of the electronic voting and counting system was the culmination of an extensive and complex project begun by the Commission after the 1998 Legislative Assembly election. At the 1998 election, the close result in the Molonglo electorate (when 2 candidates were 3 votes apart at the point where one of them had to be excluded) and the resultant recount (which saw the relative order of these candidates change due to mistakes made in the original manual count) led to calls for computerised voting and counting processes to increase the speed and accuracy of the ACT's Hare-Clark counting system.
• In 1998/1999 the Commission examined the available options for computerising the voting and counting processes, and in October 1999 the Commission published a Request for Proposal, seeking proposals for using technology to improve the speed and accuracy of ACT election counts. ...
• After evaluating the proposals, the Commission decided that no one proposal provided a complete solution for electronic voting and vote counting that would meet all the Commission's needs. However, the proposals did clarify possible options for proceeding to some form of electronic voting and vote counting for the October 2001 election.
• After further investigation the Commission concluded that electronic voting should be provided in a controlled environment at pre-poll voting centres and polling places. The Commission was not convinced that it would be appropriate to use the internet for voting for the 2001 election.
• In December 1999 the Commission submitted a business case seeking in principle support from the ACT Government to proceed with an electronic voting/vote counting system. ...
• Following passage of this legislation, the Commission published a Request for Tender for software for the electronic voting and vote counting system on 11 December 2000. ...
• EVACS has two parts: electronic voting and electronic counting. Electronic voting is used in polling places to directly record votes. ...
• Electronic voting.

• Internet-Voting.
• Internet Voting Technology Alliance Formed in Washington, D. ...
• An international group of experts and companies officially formed an alliance today to work on the public development and open peer review of standards to be used in voting over the Internet. ...
• Mission The Internet Voting Technology Alliance (IVTA) is dedicated to serving the public by acting as an information center, discussion forum and voluntary standards setting body and web publisher focused on Internet voting. The primary goal of the Alliance is to ensure a high level of quality and integrity in the resources and information provided, in order to foster public confidence in Internet voting. In keeping with established Internet traditions, the Alliance will operate in an open and collaborative manner and favor consensus. ...
• Internet-Wahlen im Vorfeld des US-Wahlkapmfes.
• Capital Watch: First Internet primary challenged in court .
• PHOENIX (AP) - A group trying to block Arizona's Democrats from holding the nation's first Internet presidential primary says voting by computer would hurt minorities and the poor.
• Capital Watch: California county plans Internet voting in general election .
• (AP) - Elections are going online in San Mateo County, where residents may be able to vote via the Internet in November's presidential election.
• Capital Watch: Republican straw poll to include internet voting .
• Capital Watch: Arizona pioneering Internet voting in presidential primary .
• Net: Virginia Conducts Largest Internet-Based Mock Election in Internet History.
• Who: More than 5,000 Virginia students are expected to go online to cast a vote in what organizers anticipate will be the largest mock Internet election in Internet history. ... net(TM) , the secure Internet voting company, is providing the software and technical expertise to manage what will also be the first simultaneous, multi-county voting test. ... Additional Virginia schools will be participating in the mock election, but will not employ Internet technology for their election process; they will cast paper ballots.

• New reports cast doubt on Internet voting.
• Two recent reports have called for pulling the plug on online voting unless serious security concerns are addressed. ...
• The new reports cast a harsh light on this Saturday's upcoming Democratic caucuses in Michigan, where many voters have already cast their ballots remotely using electronic voting.
• "We're moving now to more of a point of debate about it online voting . ...
• Some of harshest criticisms involve SERVE (the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment). Conducted by the Defense Department, SERVE is supposed to allow 100,000 Americans living abroad, including armed services personnel, to vote via the Internet in primaries and the November election. United States citizens abroad selected for the experiment could visit the SERVE website from any computer connected to the Internet and cast their ballots.
• The report urged that SERVE be shut down and that voting via the Internet not be attempted at any time in the foreseeable future.
• Meanwhile, a review of Maryland's online touch-screen voting system - initiated by the state last week - triggered more skepticism.
• The risks were present even though the system is intended to be used at polling places and does not send information over the Internet, removing one major source of possible tampering.
• The major hurdle for online voting is technical. ... Add the vagaries of the Internet, and the challenges of fraud prevention are huge.
• "E-commerce-grade security is not good enough for public elections," says the review report of the SERVE overseas voting system. " T he existence of technology to provide adequate security for Internet commerce does not imply that Internet voting can be made safe. ...
• The report confirms the conclusions of earlier studies by the California Secretary of State's Task Force on Internet Voting and the Internet Policy Institute, both of which found serious flaws in Internet voting schemes.
• "There would have to be some fundamental changes to PC architecture and to Internet architecture for Internet voting to be possible," says Avi Rubin, one of the four authors of the SERVE report, who is a professor of political science and technical director of the Information Security Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

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