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[privacy] U.S. Military Absentee Ballot is a Major Privacy Risk
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:26:35 GMT
Via DefenseTech.org. [snip] American troops could be putting their most personal information at risk -- just by voting in next week's elections. Members of the armed forces, stationed overseas, can cast their vote with a Federal Write In Absentee Ballot, or FWAB, if they can't get one from their local election boards. But that federal ballot, "Standard Form 186 (Oct 95)" comes with a major privacy risk, at least in some editions. The ballot has to be mailed in a special return envelope, in order to be properly processed. On military bases in the Pacific, Special Form 186 requires a service member to include his address, social security number, date of birth, and signature on the outside of that envelope. [snip] More: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002909.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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