You need a civic blockchain or some-such that guarantee's data integrity
and agnosticism of the platform that anyone can verify.

The interface into / mechanics once you have a blockchain which you can
issue tokens from is the simple bit.

Not sure this is relevant for this list tho.

-Joel

On 14 November 2016 at 17:52, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This sounds like heel-dragging to me, or they're trying to do it under
> Windows or something:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/
> 05/17/more-than-30-states-offer-online-voting-but-
> experts-warn-it-isnt-secure/
>
> It seems simple to me, you use firewalls and only make the results
> writeable by the process that should be writing to it, probably
> nothing needs to have read access in the short term.  As far as
> security after the election, mount the servers in a Brinks truck or
> something, it just sounds like a ludicrous excuse.
>
> Something like: for each election the town government mails you a
> random number that's your key to vote that election. You go to a
> website and put in your town, name, SSN, and the key. If somebody
> steals the mail they won't have your SSN. If Russian hackers or
> whoever tries to impersonate you online they won't have the key. It's
> bringing those 2 pieces of information plus your name and town
> together that makes it secure. Just guessing. Did I overlook anything?
>
> --
> Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX

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