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E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns
by adamist at 9:45 am EDT, Aug 29, 2004

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy.

Though state and federal officials insist safeguards are in place to protect the ballots from tampering, duplication or other forms of fraud, critics warn that e-mail is fundamentally insecure.

"E-mail is subject to all kinds of tampering," said Bruce Schneier, co-founder of Mountain View, Calif.-based Counterpane Internet Security Inc. "One of the problems with security is even the appearance of problems is bad."

E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns
by Acidus at 6:04 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2004

adamist wrote:
] JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri will allow members of the
] military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via
] e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about
] fraud and ballot secrecy.

... This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've seen a state government due since Georgia outlawed genital piercings.

RE: E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns
by Jeremy at 8:54 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2004

Acidus wrote:
] ... This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've seen a
] state government due since Georgia outlawed genital piercings.

That didn't happen. Read the thread at

http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid11888/blogid4262869

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