The absentee-voting system that allows U.S. military personnel to cast votes using e-mail messages and faxes is rife with security weaknesses, says a report released on Wednesday by four academic computer scientists.
The system exposes soldiers to identity theft and creates an opportunity for foreign governments or hackers to tamper with ballots, the researchers conclude.
The report, "Internet Voting Revisited: Security and Identity Theft Risks of the DoD's Interim Voting Assistance System," was written by Aviel D. Rubin, of Johns Hopkins University; Barbara Simons, a former president of the Association for Computing Machinery; David Wagner, of the University of California at Berkeley; and David R. Jefferson, of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. — Andrea L. Foster
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