Other large membership organizations such as IEEE have electronic voting. We should, too. There are established, secure solutions out there, but there will always be some who will accuse us of fraud. We shouldn't repeat what we did last time - email a word doc back (which is just odd). And any solution should be overseen by CohnReznick or similar auditing firm. Ahoy, full speed ahead. 73 Ria, N2RJ On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 10:00 PM <hopengarten@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
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-electronic-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
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