{"id":261711,"date":"2010-02-01T19:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010953894_overseasvoting.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-01T19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:39:26","slug":"overseas-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261711","title":{"rendered":"Overseas voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Internet transmission of ballots insecure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t try to fix a system that isn\u2019t broken by permitting the fax and e-mail of voted ballots [\u201cTweaking law makes overseas voting easier,\u201d Opinion, Jan. 26].<\/p>\n<p>The state Legislature\u2019s bills \u2014 House Bill 2483 and Senate Bill 6238 \u2014 are supposedly being pursued to comply with a new federal law before the 2010 election cycle. States must establish procedures for military and overseas voters to electronically receive blank absentee ballots. The law does not require or condone the electronic transmittal of voted ballots \u2014 A 2004 report to the Pentagon and subsequent reports by top computer scientists say this can\u2019t be done securely.<\/p>\n<p>Current Washington law allows service personnel and citizens overseas to receive ballots by e-mail, so long as the original ballot is returned by mail. The bill under consideration does not provide this safeguard.<\/p>\n<p>To say that voters ultimately measure the risk to their privacy themselves fails to take into account the fundamental insecurity of the Internet. The integrity of the vote and election are undermined if we ignore this fact. In a state that recently experienced a close election, we need to remember there is no reliable way to recount electronically submitted ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Washington state should not implement a system that the Pentagon rejected as fundamentally insecure. Doing so threatens the integrity of the system and dishonors the military personnel whose votes we should be doing everything we can to assure are counted.<\/p>\n<p>Washington state has one of the strongest voting systems in the country for military and overseas voters. Let\u2019s keep it that way.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Holly Jacobson, executive director VoterAction.org, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet transmission of ballots insecure Don\u2019t try to fix a system that isn\u2019t broken by permitting the fax and e-mail of voted ballots [\u201cTweaking law makes overseas voting easier,\u201d Opinion, Jan. 26]. The state Legislature\u2019s bills \u2014 House Bill 2483 and Senate Bill 6238 \u2014 are supposedly being pursued to comply with a new federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}