WP: Pentagon Drops Plan to Test Internet Voting

Pentagon Drops Plan To Test Internet Voting
Security Fears Derail $22 Million Experiment

By Dan Keating
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 31, 2004; Page A23


The Pentagon has decided to drop a $22 million pilot plan to test Internet voting for 100,000 American military personnel and civilians living overseas after lingering security concerns, officials said yesterday.

The program ran into trouble late in January when a group of academics who had been invited to review the system released a report saying the Internet was so insecure that the integrity of the entire election could be undermined by online voting. Two weeks later, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz decided not to allow Internet ballots to be counted in the presidential tally. At the time, the Pentagon said the program would go forward on an experimental basis.

Now, the Pentagon has decided that even the experiment is over....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37319-2004Mar30.html

A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)
http://www.servesecurityreport.org/