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Pentagon's E-Voting System Flawed, Unfixable, Security Experts Say: Page 4 of 4

"This is a slippery slope, and one that we think puts democracy at risk," Simons said, the reason why she and her colleagues are urging the DoD to shut down SERVE immediately.

While the four didn't have any foolproof solutions to offer up as an alternative for simplifying absentee balloting by the military, they suggested that a kiosk-based system, which would simply print out absentee ballots that voters could complete and mail back to the U.S., would be more secure than SERVE.

A spokesman for the Federal Voting Assistance Program, which overseas SERVE, did not respond to a call for comment.