{"id":52845,"date":"2021-10-14T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/10\/14\/plan-to-let-troops-cast-ballots-over-the-internet-draws-opposition-from-security-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:10:37","slug":"plan-to-let-troops-cast-ballots-over-the-internet-draws-opposition-from-security-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/10\/14\/plan-to-let-troops-cast-ballots-over-the-internet-draws-opposition-from-security-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to let troops cast ballots over the internet draws opposition from security experts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A group of election security experts is urging lawmakers to drop plans in the annual defense authorization bill<\/a> which would allow online ballot casting for troops serving overseas<\/a>, saying the security concerns outweigh the potential benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are solutions to improve military and overseas voting without expanding dangerously insecure voting technology,\u201d the group wrote in a letter<\/a> to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe that servicemembers deserve the highest standard of safe and verifiable voting. For the foreseeable future, internet voting cannot meet that standard, and places military voters\u2019 votes \u2014 and the trustworthiness of elections themselves \u2014 at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort, which includes groups like Protect Democracy and the U.S. Vote Foundation as well as 27 former state election officials and academics, comes as the Senate is preparing to complete its draft of the massic defense policy bill in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\t