American overseas? Voting obstacles arise.

The Defense Department operates a website for the Federal Voting Assistance Program, designed to help American civilians and servicemen and -women overseas cast absentee ballots. Now the International Herald Tribune is reporting that the Pentagon has begun blocking access to the site through a range of internet service providers in at least 25 countries - including Yahoo Broadband in Japan, Wanadoo in France, BT Yahoo Broadband in Britain and Telefónica in Spain. The ostensible reason: to prevent hackers from accessing the site. Hackers using other ISP's can of course still reach the site--it's really just a problem for Americans using those ISP's who want to vote.

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