Coming soon to an absentee voter near you
This looks promising:
Internet voting test set for 2004
More than two years after the most contentious election in U.S. history, the
Defense Department will test a new method of voting over the Internet for
absentee ballot voters in the military or living overseas.
The experiment will take place during the 2004 presidential general and primary
elections with voters protected under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens
Absentee Voting Act.
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American voting participants from all over the world will be able to register
and cast their vote in the 2004 election from any Windows-based computer with
Internet access, said Carol Paquette, program manager of DoD’s Secure
Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, which is known as SERVE.
Unless, of course, it goes the route of the Motor Voter Bill.
Before paper absentee ballots can be thrown out though, Parry Giles points to
the reluctance of Republicans to pass the Motor Voter Bill as an example of how
passing Internet voting could be bogged down in legislation.
“Typically when it is made easier for people to vote and voting rates rise, it
benefits the Democrats and hurts Republicans,” Parry-Giles said.

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