[H]ardNews 4th Edition

VeriSign &Internet Voting:

It looks like VeriSign will be handling internet voting for absentee voters. With all the stink over VeriSign using the redirect trick for misspelled domain names, I wonder if it is smart to have them handling absentee voting. I guess we’ll all know soon enough.

The contract was granted by consulting firm Accenture, which is working with the U.S. Department of Defense on a voting system known as the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment. When completed, the system will allow absentee military personnel and overseas Americans from eight participating states to cast their votes in the 2004 general election.