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Voting News: Risks of DC Internet Voting Pilot for military voters. Letter to Holder: ban DREs

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DC's Internet Voting Pilot
http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/07/dcs_internet_voting_pilot.html
...Because voters are voting on their own computers, there is of course a risk from compromise of those machines. The average user's computer isn't very well maintained and though estimates for the fraction of machines which are malware infected vary, it's clear that the numbers are large. It wouldn't be particularly hard to develop a piece of malware whose payload changed people's votes. There are several potential attack vectors here:

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Letter To AG Holder To Ban DREs Voting Machines
http://protectourelections.org/node/15
Today, our Protect Our Elections attorney, Kevin Zeese, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him, under the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution, to ban electronic DRE voting machines used in states across the country.

How VIP States Can Use FourSquare Cartography for Voter Education
http://www.votinginfoproject.org/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/1/How-VIP-States-Can-Use-FourSquare-Cartography-for-Voter-Education

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