U.S. soldiers' overseas votes ripe for fraud

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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15627858.htm


Just weeks before the November election, the Pentagon is struggling to fix its system for handling the votes of soldiers overseas.

Yet experts in computer security and election technology say the Pentagon's current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a system that is ripe for fraud.

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``I can't for the life of me figure out how the Defense Department decided this is the right thing to do,'' said Doug Jones, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Iowa.

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Critics of the Pentagon's system identified what they described as other troubling flaws:

• Soldiers are not warned about risks to their personal information and voting choices when they e-mail or fax their ballots;

• Soldiers who fax or e-mail ballots will be required to waive their right to a secret ballot;

• Soldiers are not informed that ballots they e-mail directly to the Department of Defense will be processed by an outside contractor, whose executives have made contributions to Republican organizations.
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read on - it's disgusting

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1. kicking back to first page so more military can read this

nt