Military online registration and voting experiment to be launched


June 20, 2003

by Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample
American Forces Press Service


A DoD voting experiment in the 2000 presidential elections that allowed military and overseas voters to cast their ballots through the Internet will be expanded in 2004.

Beginning this fall, the Federal Voting Assistance Program hopes to get as many as 100,000 military personnel -- stateside and overseas -- their eligible dependents and U.S. citizens living outside the United States to take part in the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE ) said Polli Brunelli, the program director. SERVE covers only those U.S. citizens who fall under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCVA).