CEO Joe Mohen says the key factor in the decision to go with the Microsoft platform was, first of all, scalability. Elections can be as little as a few hundred voters, to the many, many million. We have to be able to handle online scalability requirements, because voter turnout is unpredictable, and furthermore voter traffic is very hard to gauge in a peak load like that. An equally important factor is reliability, says Mohen. You cannot say to an electorate, we're going to push back the elections from November 7th to November 14th because we have technical problems.
Elections have to work, it's as simple as that.
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