From: Gary Britt 


WASHINGTON (AP) -- A New Jersey congressman raised questions Thursday about
a new military voting program that lets service members request and submit
their ballots by fax or e-mail.

Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said the Defense Department has set up a
secure absentee voter program that will allow military members to request
and receive absentee ballots. The new program, she said, lets people vote
without relying on the regular mail system.

As part of the program, many states allow military members deployed
overseas to return their completed ballot via fax or the Internet. Those
ballots, Smith said, will not pass through the hands of any government
officials until they are received by a local election authority.


The congressman says he's worried that making it easy for military overseas
and in Iraq to vote via Internet absentee ballots might  cause them to be
subject to identity theft.   YEAH RIGHT.  He also said they
should get a flu shot when voting in the DOD's Internet voting for military.

Gary


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