Andrew Plato wrote: >>>Oregon won't do away with the mail-in ballots as far as I >> >>know. But the >> >>>remainder of the system is being updated to do electronic data >>>gathering and registration. >>> >> >>I'm a little vague on what that all means. >> >>Is the Oregon electronic voting thingie going to support a >>voter-verified audit trail? Or is that not a relevant concept for the >>parts being electronicized? > > > 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. > > Beyond that, I can't really discuss any technical details of the system > for obvious security reasons. > There it is again "for security reasons"! That is very much like "trust us, give us control over your life and we will make it better". Security should be based on key and protocols not obscurity. Gates and co. have proved that.
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