The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) is continually working with states to enhance the ability of UOCAVA citizens to vote absentee.
One of the main problems UOCAVA citizens have voting is the time to receive and return the ballot by mail.
During the 2000 General Election, FVAP implemented a small pilot project to determine if voting using the Internet was techncially feasible and secure. This pilot, Voting Over the Internet (VOI), was successful. Click here for more information about VOI.
In 2001, Congress requested that the Department of Defense (DOD) conduct an electronic voting experiment and report on the feasibility of this technology to facilitate UOCAVA voting participation. The Federal Voting Assistance Program worked closely with seven volunteer states and nearly 50 counties to develop a highly secure web-based registration and voting system for use in the 2004 elections to carry out this Congressional mandate.
Concerns were raised that, given the current security vulnerabilities of the Internet and voters’ personal computers, no Internet voting system could be 100% secure. Rather than potentially bringing the integrity of the election results into doubt, the Department of Defense has decided not to deploy the SERVE system for use in 2004.
