So let's get back to the technical issues. The system has been designed in a way that lets it scale well. Of course the preservation of privacy and security issues had top priority during development and according to Jason, it does pretty well in these aspects already. If correctly configured, nothing short of a physical destruction of the servers by fire or other catastrophes could endanger an election - and this would also be a problem for more conventional election systems. The project is relatively small for its rather big goals.
Help is needed and wanted especially for testing and finding possible security problems.
Besides this it is planned to implement different election systems as currently only a direct comparison between the amount of votes for certain candidates is possible. Okay, that's it for this month. Return to GNU's home page .