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Report: E-Voting System Vulnerable to Cyberattack

A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), January 20, 2004:

  • “This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense’s FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program). The program’s web site is http://www.serveusa.gov/. While the system is called an experiment, it is going to be used to count real votes in the upcoming general elections… because SERVE is an Internet- and PC-based system, it has numerous other fundamental security problems that leave it vulnerable to a variety of well-known cyber attacks (insider attacks, denial of service attacks, spoofing, automated vote buying, viral attacks on voter PCs, etc.), any one of which could be catastrophic.”
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