Whats inside the governments e-voting booth?
By Susan M. MenkeJul 10, 2003 The world’s newest voting booth is having its curtain wrinkles ironed out by the Defense Department’s Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment. Starting in January, SERVE expects to register online about 100,000 military and civilian absentee voters for the 2004 primary and general elections. Meg McLaughlin, global managing partner for e-democracy at prime contractor Accenture LLP of Chicago, said the SERVE contract, awarded last year, will run through March 2005 to allow for post-election review. Accenture representatives would not disclose the contract value. In the 2002 elections, about 100 military users in several states tried Internet voting in a ‘good, small prototype,’ McLaughlin said. ‘For 2004, we’re working to scale in more states.’ The 50 counties participating next year are located in Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, North and South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington. The 2002 Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Abs
