[LINK] Electronic Voting Trial for Deployed Defence Personnel

[Tom Worthington]

At 11:55 AM 19/09/2007, Sylvano wrote:
>FYI - An AEC media release ...
>
>Electronic Voting Trial for Deployed Defence Personnel
>  http://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Media_releases/09_18.htm ...
>... The secure Defence systems meet the highest national security 
>and privacy standards and Defence personnel casting their votes can 
>be confident that no person can view or manipulate their electronic votes. ...

Defence personnel can be confident that their votes are as secure as 
they need to be. But the votes do not need to be protected to the 
highest national security level and the AEC should not be misleading 
voters by saying they will be. Keeping the ADF voters alive by 
transmitting military operational information securely is a higher 
priority for the defence network than sending their votes.

What should be of more concern is that there have been no public 
reports (as far as I have seen) about trials of the system or how or 
by who it is being built. The system for disabled users is being 
built by an Australian company which has done such systems before and 
has been publicly tested by disabled users. There appears to be no 
details of who, how or how the system for ADF personnel is being 
built or tested. The network the system is being used over may well 
be secure, but who is building the software and how is it being 
tested? The AEC needs to say.



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