Andrew Plato wrote: >The system under development is mostly focused on vote collection, >storage, voter registration, validation, and analysis, etc. To my >knowledge, they will continue with mail-in ballots and use this system >to process and validate those ballots. I would assume that the mail-in >ballots could provide the audit trail of exactly how votes were cast. > Makes sense. >Beyond that, I can't really discuss any technical details of the system >for obvious security reasons. > That is not obvious. There is a lot of evidence that open systems are more secure than closed systems. OTOH, "... can't really discuss any technical details of the system for obvious *proprietary* reasons" is obvious :) Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ CTO, Immunix http://immunix.com Immunix 7.3 http://www.immunix.com/shop/
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