[wplug] Internet voting in 2004 (Windows Only)?

[Russ Schneider]

from 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=514&e=9&u=/ap/20030712/ap_on_hi_te/internet_voting

The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, which began as 
a tiny demonstration project in the 2000 general election and involved 
just 84 voters, could give 100,000 voters the chance to cast absentee 
ballots online in next year's presidential primaries and general election.

The Pentagon (news - web sites)-run program will be limited to eligible 
voters whose homes in the United States are in South Carolina and 
Hawaii, as well as residents in a handful of counties in Arkansas, 
Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington.

"Internet voting takes just seconds instead of weeks if you were to put 
that ballot in the mail and send it off," said Polli Brunelli, director 
of the Pentagon's Federal Voting Assistance Program. "What we're trying 
to do is make sure that we have an alternative out there for those 
people who are unable to vote by mail."

If it proves successful, the $22 million program could be expanded to 
serve more than 6 million voters in the armed forces living here and 
abroad, their dependents and nonmilitary U.S. citizens residing overseas.

Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any 
***Microsoft Windows-based computer with Internet access***. Local 
election officials will use the system to process voter registration 
applications, send ballots to voters and accept voted ballots instantly. 
Long delays in counting absentee ballots, a factor in the disputed 2000 
presidential election, would be a thing of the past.

-- 
Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo)
http://www.sugapablo.com

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