TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, January 22, 2004

From 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.

The system, called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voter Experiment, or SERVE, is designed to allow U.S. military personnel and civilians living overseas to log onto a computer terminal and cast an absentee ballot.
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The online nature of SERVE could easily allow a hacker to tamper with the voting results.
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The Federal Voting Assistance Program, part of the Defense Department, is moving ahead with the system.
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The report's authors are computer scientists David Wagner, Avi Rubin and David Jefferson from the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, respectively, and Barbara Simons, a computer scientist and leading technology policy consultant. . . .

The system is targeted for use in 50 counties and seven states during this year's primary and general elections, and could handle up to 100,000 votes. . . .

First tryout is slated for February 3 during South Carolina's presidential primary.

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