Hmm .,, We're not talking about state or national elections.  The fate of the world does not rest on who is elected Vice-Director from the Podunk division. Of course, we should apply any level of security that can be easily and seamlessly applied.  But let's not take ourselves too seriously here.  Any system that we adopt had best be unobtrusive enough that it won't deter voters MikeK1TWF1st VP -----Original Message----- From: hopengarten@post.harvard.edu To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Sent: Thu, Feb 4, 2021 10:00 pm Subject: [arrl-odv:31912] FW: ARRL Board of Directors to Reconsider the Use of Electronic Balloting #yiv6828570590 #yiv6828570590 -- filtered {}#yiv6828570590 filtered {}#yiv6828570590 filtered {}#yiv6828570590 p.yiv6828570590MsoNormal, #yiv6828570590 li.yiv6828570590MsoNormal, #yiv6828570590 div.yiv6828570590MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;}#yiv6828570590 a:link, #yiv6828570590 span.yiv6828570590MsoHyperlink {color:#0563C1;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv6828570590 a:visited, #yiv6828570590 span.yiv6828570590MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#954F72;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv6828570590 span.yiv6828570590EmailStyle17 {color:windowtext;}#yiv6828570590 span.yiv6828570590EmailStyle18 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv6828570590 .yiv6828570590MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;}#yiv6828570590 filtered {}#yiv6828570590 div.yiv6828570590WordSection1 {}#yiv6828570590 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  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 | | Virus-free. www.avast.com | _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv