No Hanging Chads but a Bundle a Ballot

A Pentagon experiment that let some overseas soldiers vote via the Internet last year cost $6.2 million but netted just 84 ballots at a cost of nearly $74,000 per voter.

But the Pentagon considers the experiment a success and said any criticisms are misguided. The experiment was designed to test the feasibility of Internet voting, not save money, it said.

Still, said Hans von Spakovsky, vice chairman of the Fulton County, Ga., election board in Atlanta and a board member of the Voting Integrity Project, which has criticized Internet voting proposals: “It was an awful lot of money for the small number of votes.”