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Activists Target Internet Voting
By CATHERINE DOLINSKI

The Tampa Tribune
Published: May 30, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Voting activists demanded Thursday that state officials stop one Florida county from experimenting with Internet voting this fall.

If Secretary of State Kurt Browning allows Okaloosa County to go ahead with the project, the issue could wind up in court, said Dan McCrea, president of the Florida Voters Coalition.

"Taxpayers are still reeling from the costly mistake of allowing DRE touch-screen voting before that technology was secure," McCrea said in a letter he sent to Browning. "We mustn't repeat that mistake by allowing cyberspace voting when that technology is not secure."

McCrea referred to the Operation Bravo pilot project in Okaloosa County, which Supervisor of Elections Pat Hollarn plans to launch this fall specifically to serve overseas voters in the military.

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