Voting Rights: Alabama seeks to give overseas military an easier way to vote
Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman this week announced that she will push for a bill to allow military personnel and others living overseas to cast ballots online, reports the Associated Press.
Chapman was inspired by a military internet voting pilot program used in Florida, which during the 2008 election allowed voters in three locations overseas to cast their votes via the web.The program put secure voting kiosks in three overseas locations during the general election -- England, Germany and Japan. The kiosks used secure laptops and operated for a 10-day period. Ballots were encrypted and transmitted to a secure server.
Proponents of such voting explain that the United State is behind in the realm of electronic voting and that the current system is entirely dependent on the mail, which is often slow to reach deployed locations.
Chapman was inspired by a military internet voting pilot program used in Florida, which during the 2008 election allowed voters in three locations overseas to cast their votes via the web.The program put secure voting kiosks in three overseas locations during the general election -- England, Germany and Japan. The kiosks used secure laptops and operated for a 10-day period. Ballots were encrypted and transmitted to a secure server.
Proponents of such voting explain that the United State is behind in the realm of electronic voting and that the current system is entirely dependent on the mail, which is often slow to reach deployed locations.
