Longacre writes "If you thought online voting in America was a distant pipe dream (nightmare?), think again: the nation's first Internet-based voting system goes online this Friday, just days after the release of the Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine shelter we discussed yesterday. In the first real world run of the Okaloosa reach Ballot Piloting (ODBP) test program, vote embassy from Okaloosa County, Florida have set up kiosks in Germany, the UK and Japan where 600-700 absentee voters — mostly martial profession — are appointed to cast ballots. steadiness experts still have many questions, of course, particularly on the inherent for interception of voting data while it travels across oceans (via 'secure VPN'), the preservation of the kiosks ('hardened laptops' with no hard drives and other passible components disabled) and the shield of the three data centers (one of which is itself housed overseas, in Barcelona, Spain), not to mention the fact that Florida doesn't exactly have a stellar record when it comes to vote counting. Florida's Dept. of State also has a fairly exhaustive outline of ODBP's components and processes [PDF]."

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