Internet Voting Could Jeopardize Democracy, Study Says

A group of security consultants have concluded that the Internet is so functionally insecure that using it for voting could threaten the integrity of the voting process.

According to an article by Mike Himowitz in the Baltimore Sun, the Department of Defense commissioned the consultants to poke holes in its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE). SERVE is a $22 million experimental project that will allow members of the military and civilians who live overseas to cast online ballots in the presidential primaries of seven states.

Shortly after the consultants released their report, the government announced it would still go ahead with the project as planned. Himowitz says the consultants agree that SERVE will make registering and casting an absentee ballot easier, but they say the program's reliance on the Internet makes it fundamentally insecure and vulnerable to attacks by hackers or agents of another country.

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