Voting on the Internet inherently insecure?
Security researchers say an Internet voting system for U.S. citizens overseas is so insecure that it should be
ditched.
The Pentagon developed a Web-based Internet voting system for soldiers and other Americans abroad. The
Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, will get its first test February 3rd in South Carolina's primary election. Six other states have signed on.
The Pentagon stands by its system, but computer security experts from Johns Hopkins University, The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, plus an independent researcher, claim that SERVE is highly vulnerable to malicious hackers or even terrorists. The four security experts are among 10 the Pentagon asked to study SERVE to look for vulnerabilities.