On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:20:12PM +0100, Thomas Pedoussaut wrote:
> Booting off Read Only support like a CD Rom, that has been pressed and
> physically/visually signed ?
And how do you verify the contents of it?
> At the end of boot, the machine, within a transparent cell, ejects the
> CD so every voter can see the disk.
>> Disks are then collected at the end of the poll for further
> investigation in case of litigation.
>> Data are collected into one / two USB keys that are physically removed
> from each machine. Put into separate containers for later count.
Actually having USB available at all is one of the biggest security
problems in the whole affair.
> Any citizen can visually follow the process of counting.
How?
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