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The Department of Defense has commissioned a program to develop an Internet voting system to be used by military personnel and other Americans who are out of the country at election time and must vote by absentee ballot. At first glance, it might sound like a good idea: with Internet access available throughout much of the world and e-mail and other online methods become a standard means of communication, it would solve some of the problems associated with traditional paper ballots. But would it create a whole new - and worse - set of problems? A number of network security experts think so.
Last month, a report was published by a group of prominent cyber-security experts that says Internet voting is inherently insecure and the risks of tampering or mistakes cannot be eliminated. Even with electronic voting systems that don't connect to the Internet, serious questions have been raised recently about the ability of hackers to interfere with election results. To read more about it, see: http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040203ED-Internet_Voting
The idea of technically savvy people with a political agenda gaining control of a large number of votes and manipulating presidential, Congressional or other elections to their liking is a scary one. With closed systems (not networked), the risk is there but less: deliberate tampering would have to be done by someone with physical access or planted into the software by one of the programmers who writes it. With votes traveling across the Internet, though, the potential for hackers is much greater. Even in a perfect world where no one would think of trying to sway an election, as with any computerized system there is a possibility of hardware "glitches" or software programming errors skewing the data.
On the other hand, some would argue that anyone who trusts the 'Net with his/her credit card numbers and other personal information should also trust Internet voting. Encryption and other security mechanisms have made online buying and banking fairly commonplace. But how many of us have lived through the nightmare of trying to untangle an Internet financial transaction gone wrong? At least the credit card companies have a process for correcting erroneous charges that offers some protection to the consumer. If a hacker hijacked your vote, would you ever even know?
What about you? Would you trust your vote to the Internet or do you see such systems as disasters waiting to happen, maybe even a threat to democracy itself? Let us know your opinion at feedback@winxpnews.com
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