From: "Robert G Lewis" 

 I do think there are  valid concerns about the possibility of fraud.

another article

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&article
Id=268797

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001062
.html

Would you use normal email with your SSN , etc

I wish I could find a copy of the letter though.



"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:454aa723$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> 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
>
>
>
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VOTING_MILITARY?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME
&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-11-02-17-51-16

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5