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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Dump Internet Voting Msg# 1209669
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I agree with your observations. I did not address all that as my only attention in the commentary was to the vendor's own code that we must "trust" without any means to verify in a recount. We cannot verify. Hacking, etc is always a potential issue, as you point out - even some politically passionate OPA member - and there are a number of those.
As for the website security of the vendor, we have no idea about that either. Look, MK Elections is very likely running a safe operation. Regardless, nothing but paper can be counted, recounted, and recounted, and verified. We know this because the Piatti-chaired committee told us ,and one or more board members told us it was the best committee in recent years. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Piatti correctly pointed out that Internet voting requires OPA to "trust" totally in any company handling Internet voting. Trust is more than putting your faith in things a company doing your internet voting can generally control such as system competence and staff behavior. A larger fear and one that seems to me is growing by the day is (i) internet hacking and (ii) unforeseen system failures caused by someone else. I doubt some Russian hacker has MK Elections on their target map. But a hack into a larger system that MK Elections relies on could cause chaos to MK systems at the time OPA is conducting its election. The larger risk are system failures further up the food chain. One month ago, the largest IT outage in history was triggered by a botched software update from internet security giant CrowdStrike. Thousands of companies, large and small, didn't know what him them. All they got was the blue screen of death on their computer......... some for days. All of OPA Board and Election Committee faith and trust in MK Elections won't help in such situations. There are a lot of bad actors out there, state-sponsored and private. Both are growing. This is why we don't do internet voting in local, state and federal elections. Unfortunately, these risks have to be considered for HOAs who choose to include internet voting component. Anyway, food for thought. |
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