While the attack in no way compromised the sanctity of the vote — in other words, no ballots cast by bona fide NDP members were added, subtracted or changed — Scytl indicated in a statement Tuesday that the attack was an attempt to crash or slow down websites by “saturating servers with bogus external communications requests that deny legitimate users access” — otherwise known as a distributed denial of service attack.
And we know the attack by 10,000 computers “in no way compromised the sanctity of the vote” how, exactly? Well, because they say so, silly!
We know Scytl’s elections are secure because, as we noted in January when the Spanish-based company purchased S.O.E., the largest “election management company” in the U.S. (they do online results reporting, etc.), they told us so in their own press release announcing the acquisition. And they told us twice! They couldn’t tell us they were secure unless they really were! Am I right, Sequoia Voting Systems?
Other than that — oh, and other than this — voting by Internet is a great idea! Am I right, Americans Elect and Michael Eisner?
The Gazette also goes on to note at the end of their coverage:
Oh, well, if officials insisted, then certainly they must be right about that.
"Democracy by Internet: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" TM
Those hosers! Does anyone have any more molsons?
Eeeaahhh….What’s up, Doc?
Cwazy Wabbit…
@bob&doug mckenzie: eh!? That’s my soon-to-be-adopted COUNTRY, so back off on those moldy oldy stereotypes! Ya hear me? 🙂 yeah, I keep telling my hubby that there is a little bit o’trouble in Oz (I started calling him Dorothy when I met him 14 years ago in the Bay Area & he never locked my car doors!!) But he just keeps saying: it’s BETTER there. And I say: hell or handbasket? Choose! G’night all.