DoD's New, Untested, Secretly Developed Overseas Mil. Voting Scheme

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REPORT: DoD's New, Untested, Secretly Developed Overseas Military Voting Scheme for General Election 'Poses Significant Security Risks'


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3665&print=1


Computer Scientists Warn in New Report That U.S. Military and Overseas Ballots Now Vulnerable to Loss of Privacy, Identify Theft, Hackers, Tampering by Both American and Foreign Governments
System Never Publicly Tested or Used Even in a Primary Election to be Used for First Time in Nov. 7th Midterm Election!

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Last month we reported on the Defense Department's newly announced scheme to allow military and overseas ballots to be cast via the Internet. It was pointed out, among other concerns, that in many cases troop and overseas citizen votes would be subject to conversion from unsecured email voting into faxed documents by a private company who, in turn, would then forward the vote to the appropriate county jurisdiction.

The San Jose Mercury News quoted experts at the time who charged the system was "ripe for fraud" as military voters would apparently not be warned that their ballots might be seen by others and transferred into faxes, etc. by "a private contractor whose top executives have made political contributions to Republican Party organizations."

Underscoring those initial reports today, a group of independent computer scientists and E-Voting experts including David Jefferson of Livermore National Laboratories, Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins, David Wagner of UC Berkeley, and Barbara Simons, a former researcher for IBM, have released an alarming short paper warning of "significant risks" found in the newly announced plan from the DoD's "Federal Voting Assistance Program" (FVAP).

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The six page report is now available here .

From the report's troubling introduction:

None of these security concerns is original; all were raised in a DoD internal review, discussed below.

IVAS was announced to the public only last month (September), and has been designed and built only over the last several months, an extremely short time for a system of this complexity and importance. The current system has never been used in a public election before (not even in a primary), and has not been subject to any publicly available external security examination. The technical specifications have not been made publicly available.

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I posted on this a few wks ago.

apparently there is no stopping the DoD.

wonder how many of our military know about this?

voting in Nov. will be a total mess everywhere!

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1. ..from private company...? Dick Morris ? How many plugs did

he get in during right wing network appearances to push his internet voting company - two years ago? Maybe more?

No matter what the subject, he'd drop a plug for his company.

Wouldn't you feel assured if you knew that the company was owned by Richard Dick Morris - schemer, sniper, smearer - the guy who cliams to know how get into and extract from the minds of Hillary and Bill.

Mr Know-it-all Dick.

Or maybe the private company referred to is being run by Poindexter with or without Oliver North.

Private companies -

does anyone beside those who get a cut want Social Security to be handed to a private company? How about our roads and highways? Our Fire Departments? Our libraries? Our water?