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Report Says E-Voting Is Unsafe

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Report Says E-Voting Is Unsafe by Lynn Burke

12:35 a.m. Jul. 11, 2000 PDT

Voting in your pajamas is unsafe.

So says the latest study published by the Voting Integrity Project, a non-partisan group based in Arlington, Virginia that has openly attacked the Arizona Democratic Party's Internet primary election in March.

"...It is quite conceivable that a foreign-owned company, with political motivations, supported by a hostile government, could be in a position to administer binding public elections," the report reads.

The report, written by VIP chairwoman Deborah Phillips and California Secretary of State's Internet Voting Advisory Committee Chairman David Jefferson, makes a distinction between on-site and remote Internet voting.

In a poll-side Internet election, county, or state officials would monitor the entire process, and voters would cast votes on secure computers. Remote voting means that people will be able to cast votes on any computer with an Internet connection.

And while the report offers a tentative endorsement of non-binding poll-side Internet voting, it unequivocally rejects remote Internet voting, calling it fundamentally unsafe.

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