Groups warn against hasty action on Internet voting in response to long lines, technical glitches in November.

In a letter delivered to President Obama and congressional leaders this month, experts including congressional representatives, elections officers and cyber-security experts, urged the president to reject any calls for Internet voting.

Security experts warned that New Jersey's plan for e-mail-based voting was a recipe for problems, and anecdotal evidence is starting to trickle in that the system isn't working as well as organizers had hoped. One address used to request ballots was not even accepting e-mail late Tuesday morning. And in another county, an election official responded to problems with the county e-mail system by inviting voters to send ballot requests to his personal Hotmail address.

Internet voting for American citizens is exceedingly dangerous.

That's the opinion of David Jefferson, a computer scientist and chairman of Verified Voting, an election watchdog group based in Carlsbad, Calif.

"I consider voting security to be a national-security issue," said Jefferson. "So it has to be treated with that level of seriousness."

Rapid advances in the development of cyberweapons and malicious software mean that electronic-voting machines used in the 2012 election could be hacked, potentially tipping the presidential election or a number of other races.

It’s 3:00 a.m. on November 7, 2012.
With the painfully close presidential election now down to who wins the battleground state of Ohio, no network dares to call the race and risk repeating the mistakes of 2000 when a few networks jumped the gun on picking a winner.