PAPER: ‘U.S. Soldiers’ Overseas Votes Ripe for Fraud’

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From Mercury News Thursday (Sorry, been running behind for some reason)…

Just weeks before the November election, the Pentagon is struggling to fix its system for handling the votes of soldiers overseas.

Yet experts in computer security and election technology say the Pentagon’s current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a system that is ripe for fraud.

During the next six weeks, thousands of service members are expected to fax or e-mail ballots over international communications networks that are susceptible to interception and tampering, putting those votes at risk.

“I can’t for the life of me figure out how the Defense Department decided this is the right thing to do,” said Doug Jones, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Iowa.

And here’s more…

[V]otes sent to the Pentagon will be forwarded to a private contractor whose top executives have made political contributions to Republican Party organizations.

See the full story, for more…it gets even worse.

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PAPER: ‘U.S. Soldiers’ Overseas Votes Ripe for Fraud’

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    steve said on 10/1/2006 @ 9:05am PT: [Permalink]

    Republicans act so confident when in actuality they are scared and have to cheat to win.
    They call them selves Americans? Defenders of our Constitution and way of life? Isn’t that a bunch of horse s**t.

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    charlie said on 10/1/2006 @ 11:06am PT: [Permalink]

    The MSM always promotes the lie that our troups, most of which signed up thinking they would be at home in the national guard, OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORT REPUBLICANS!!!

    We are told this lie even though the troups are being given untreated sewer water, inadequate food, inadequate supplies, no body armor, and vehicles without proper armor.

    It is a lie that these poor abused citizens support the chimp – but the MSM continues to pound on this lie so that these votes can be stolen.

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    big dan said on 10/1/2006 @ 12:11pm PT: [Permalink]

    Holy shit! Another vote-related contractor with GOP ties! How can this continually happen? This time they’re f***ing the millitaty!!! They don’t care about ANY voters. They will be disenfranchizing Republican voters who want to vote them out this time…IE they will be disenfranchizing REPUBLICAN VOTERS, AS WELL AS DEM VOTERS…IE EVERYBODY!!!!!

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    Floridiot said on 10/1/2006 @ 12:12pm PT: [Permalink]

    Well, it looks like they shut down access to my first link
    So I’ll put up the link to the page I got it from

    Link

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    Larry Bergan said on 10/2/2006 @ 7:11am PT: [Permalink]

    Republicans sure know how to exploit solders and handicapped people. Disgusting!

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