Reply #48: Pentagon dropped internet voting due to lack of security but public told [View All]

[EVDebs]

it was safe.

Pentagon drops Internet voting plans for military personnel--
It cited security concerns for the move but plans to keep studying the idea
Feb 5, 2004
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,89902,00.html

""In a Jan. 30 memo to David Chu, the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz wrote that "in view of the inability to ensure legitimacy of votes that would be cast in the SERVE Internet voting project, thereby bringing into doubt the integrity of the election, I hereby direct you to take immediate steps to ensure that no voters use the system to register or vote via the Internet."

The memo was released today by a Defense Department spokesman who was asked about the status of the controversial voting program, which is called SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment).""

...but using web/internet voting for the general public is deemed 'secure' and 'reliable' ? Yet another lie from the most mendacious administration I've come across in my lifetime.