Thought y'all might like to see this. WC1M is a serious person. -Fred K1VR From: wc1m73@gmail.com [mailto:wc1m73@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2021 9:46 PM To: k1vr@arrl.org Subject: ARRL Board of Directors to Reconsider the Use of Electronic Balloting ARRL Board of Directors to Reconsider the Use of Electronic Balloting <http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-board-of-directors-to-reconsider-the-use-of-e lectronic-balloting> Hi Fred, Hmmm. Are you involved in this? I spent 10 years as an investor and Director of a startup I co-founded to do Internet Voting (not just organizational voting but the real deal - government elections, which we actually did in the U.K.) It's a long, long story. Of course, the company failed. Given the recent election, I'm sort of glad it did. No doubt, the conspiracy theorists would have been all over us. I believed deeply in the crypto we invented to do secure elections, and still do, but I'm quite skeptical about the systems used by companies that support electronic voting (as well as so-called electronic voting pioneers like Estonia.) Speaking as the guy who designed the crypto security for LoTW, the process for which has been hated by many amateurs, it takes a lot to make a cyrpto systems secure. If the Board decides to do this, the security algorithms and protocols offered by the vendor need to be vetted by experts. 73, Dick WC1M -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus