U.S. to test expat cybervoting

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Military is getting into the voting act for overseas military personnel. No more late absentee ballots showing up after the election. High potential for denial of service attacks and voter fraud IMHO.

http://www.iht.com/articles/104098.html

WASHINGTON As many as 100,000 American military personnel and civilians abroad will have the opportunity to cast their vote via the Internet in elections next year under a new U.S. government plan.

The Defense Department's Secure Registration and Voting Experiment will give registered voters an alternative to the traditional absentee ballot in both the presidential primaries and the 2004 general election as long as their home countries and states participate.

The target audience is only a small portion of the estimated 7.4 million U.S. military and civilians overseas, but it is greatly expanded from a trial online effort in the 2000 election in which fewer than 100 people participated.

“We are trying to reach people who have difficulty voting by mail," said Polli Brunelli, director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (www.fvap.gov), which is running the project, “and give them a chance to vote from their personal computer, from a library or even a cybercafé.”

From a cybercafé? Especially with the recent news story of a hacker using spyware on public internet terminals to capture keystrokes? Is this wise?