Plan to let troops cast ballots over the internet draws opposition from security experts

[rangerrebew]

Plan to let troops cast ballots over the internet draws opposition from security experts
By Leo Shane III
 Oct 14, 03:11 PM
 
A group of election security experts is urging lawmakers to drop plans in the annual defense authorization bill which would allow online ballot casting for troops serving overseas, saying the security concerns outweigh the potential benefits.

“There are solutions to improve military and overseas voting without expanding dangerously insecure voting technology,” the group wrote in a letter to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week.

“We believe that servicemembers deserve the highest standard of safe and verifiable voting. For the foreseeable future, internet voting cannot meet that standard, and places military voters’ votes — and the trustworthiness of elections themselves — at risk.”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/10/14/plan-to-let-troops-cast-ballots-over-the-internet-draws-opposition-from-security-experts/

[AARguy]

Very scary that the internet is now called "dangerously insecure voting technology". Remember, the whole concept of the internet emerged as an an "uninterruptible" messaging system for nuclear release messaging. The whole idea was originally for nuclear weapon release messaging. That was DARPA's mission when it started developing the internet. No one thought it would go public. When President Bush designated the internet "public domain" in 1990, the lead development guys at BBN (Bert, Baroneck, and Neumann) in Cambridge, MA started jumping out their windows. It was meant for the most sensitive messaging in the world... nuclear weapon release... and now we don't think it is secure enough to handle Soldier voting. Wow.

[skeeter]

Very scary that the internet is now called "dangerously insecure voting technology". Remember, the whole concept of the internet emerged as an an "uninterruptible" messaging system for nuclear release messaging. The whole idea was originally for nuclear weapon release messaging. That was DARPA's mission when it started developing the internet. No one thought it would go public. When President Bush designated the internet "public domain" in 1990, the lead development guys at BBN (Bert, Baroneck, and Neumann) in Cambridge, MA started jumping out their windows. It was meant for the most sensitive messaging in the world... nuclear weapon release... and now we don't think it is secure enough to handle Soldier voting. Wow.

and it will remain “not secure enough” for voting until the military as a whole can be trusted to vote the right way.

Meanwhile ballots are being mailed out by the millions here at home.

[EdinVA]

Well, this is nothing more than a back door to federalizing elections.
57 states and territories would have to establish web based tools to handle hundreds of senatorial, congressional, presidential, state, county, local and special elections every year.... Monumental job.