SERVE Project

Definition

The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) Project was developed by FVAP as a pilot project intended to be implemented in the 2004 general election to facilitate military and overseas voting through the use of the Internet. It was targeted at all military and overseas voters, and seven states agreed to participate. It used SSL to encrypt communications between the voter's web browser and the central computer running the voting application, and required a user name and password. SERVE was cancelled after a group of leading computer scientists with particular expertise in electronic voting systems published a report in January 2004 documenting risks, vulnerabilities and security concerns raised by the project.