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Accenture puts Verisign in charge of US Internet voting

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The great thing is that if voters type in the wrong vote, Verisign has the technology to point them in the right direction.

Accenture puts Verisign in charge of US Internet voting Remember Verisign? The incompetent crooks who have abused their monopoly over .COM and .NET, betraying the trust of every Internet user, continuing on a long history of abusing their customers and the Internet?

They've been tapped to secure the US's Internet voting technology. They were given the contract by Arthur Andersen consuluting, now using the post-felony-fraud alias Accenture Accenture (Accenture split from Arthur Andersen before the Enron scandal, thanks, Jamais!). This beggars the imagination. I'm going to be sick.

VeriSign announced Monday that it will provide key components of a system designed to let Americans abroad cast absentee votes over the Internet.

The contract was granted by consulting firm Accenture, which is working with the U.S. Department of Defense on a voting system known as the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment. When completed, the system will allow absentee military personnel and overseas Americans from eight participating states to cast their votes in the 2004 general election.

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  1. (name not saved), September 30, 2003

    Yeah, well, if you thought putting Verisign in charge of voting was funny, wait til' you get a look at internetprivacyadvocate.org.

  2. (name not saved), September 30, 2003

    I didn't say this was funny. I am surprised at how big and comfie this handbasket is though.
    Is it getting warm in here or is just me?