E-voting brings new potential to Swiss elections

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Switzerland’s first vote via the Internet passed successfully, with considerable enthusiasm shown on Sunday in the town of Anières in canton Geneva.

But the vote has raised several questions about the future of democratic elections in Switzerland.

In particular, there are fears about the potential security risks of using the Internet to register a confidential vote.

According to the authorities, a computer hacker working by trial and error has a one in five billion chance of getting into the system used in Anières.

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And it will eventually be coming to mainstream US. The DOD will be using SERVE in 2004 - the new e-voting mechanism for military absentee ballots..

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1. 100,000 e-votes

No more scribes scribbling in barracks and loading cargo planes. Scattered neatly over battleground states with military bases.

Again all concerns were overridden with ASSURANCES of security by non-entities in the Pentagon.