Oh Hell No- Missouri Republicans Want the Military to Vote by E-Mail
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 07:25PM
TheSpook
A plan to make the presidential battleground of Missouri the first
state to allow military voters serving in combat zones such as Iraq to
cast their absentee ballots via e-mail is renewing concerns about the
security of online voting. Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt, a
Republican running for governor, announced the plan Wednesday, saying
that "simplifying the voting process for these heroes is the least we
can do." The move surprised some computer security experts and voting
watchdog groups, who said yesterday that the new rules could lead to
Election Day fraud. Under a deal with the Defense Department, Blunt's
office said, Missouri voters serving in designated combat areas will
have the option of filling out absentee ballots, scanning them into a
computer file and e-mailing the scanned document back to the Defense
Department. The department will fax the ballot to local Missouri
election officials. Missouri is the first state to adopt such a system,
according to the Defense Department, which sees it as a way to ensure
that mail delays do not disenfranchise military voters. [more ] What's next voting by passenger pigeon?
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