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06-06-2003, 08:24 AM
Defense Dept. Starts Secure Internet Registration and Voting Demonstration
By Jeremy Reynalds
Talon News
June 6, 2003
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), in conjunction with several states and counties, has begun conducting a large Internet registration and voting demonstration for the 2004 election. The congressionally mandated project is called SERVE, which stands for Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment.
With the new system, thousands of absentee uniformed services personnel, their dependents, and overseas U.S. citizens will be able to register to vote and cast their ballots from anywhere in the world with Windows-based computers with Internet access.
County election officials will use the SERVE system to receive voter registration applications, provide ballots to voters, and accept voted ballots. These officials will use their existing election administration systems to process registrations and ballots.
FVAP Director Polli Brunelli said, "Security is everyone's first question about Internet voting, so we made security the driving factor in the SERVE system design ... We are working closely with state and local election officials to ensure that the integrity of the electoral process is maintained."
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By Jeremy Reynalds
Talon News
June 6, 2003
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), in conjunction with several states and counties, has begun conducting a large Internet registration and voting demonstration for the 2004 election. The congressionally mandated project is called SERVE, which stands for Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment.
With the new system, thousands of absentee uniformed services personnel, their dependents, and overseas U.S. citizens will be able to register to vote and cast their ballots from anywhere in the world with Windows-based computers with Internet access.
County election officials will use the SERVE system to receive voter registration applications, provide ballots to voters, and accept voted ballots. These officials will use their existing election administration systems to process registrations and ballots.
FVAP Director Polli Brunelli said, "Security is everyone's first question about Internet voting, so we made security the driving factor in the SERVE system design ... We are working closely with state and local election officials to ensure that the integrity of the electoral process is maintained."
The rest (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/june/0606_dod_internet.sh tml)