Online Voting Canceled for Americans Overseas
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: February 6, 2004
Citing security concerns, the Department of Defense yesterday canceled plans to use an electronic voting system that would have allowed Americans overseas to cast votes over the Internet in this year's elections.
The system, the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or Serve, was developed with financing from the Defense Department.
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The decision was announced in a memorandum from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz to David S. C. Chu, under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
Paraphrasing the memorandum, a Department of Defense spokeswoman said: "The department has decided not to use Serve in the November 2004 elections. We made this decision in view of the inability to ensure legitimacy of votes, thereby bringing into doubt the integrity of the election results."
Why was the DoD regulating this? It was for all overseas Americans, not just military personnel. Anybody know the answer?
Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 6, 2004 11:56 PM