In the 2004 elections, the US federal government will be testing its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE).

I've got some initial problems with SERVE, 1) it is only available on computers running on the Windows operating system, 2) the testing will be very limited to about 6 million potential voters (only citizens living abroad and members of the armed services), and 3) it requires a third step in the voting provess by requiring participants to register with SERVE to get a digital signature (the other two being registering to vote and actually voting).

Still, it will be the first use of the Internet for binding results in a US national election and should be a good test of the system.