[LINK] [UK] Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears

[Stewart Fist]

Craig writes:
> 
> it's not only the hardware - software that behaves well under light
> to moderate loads can do really strange things when put under a heavy
> load - and in voting situations, you often get insanely heavy loads in
> a short period of time

I don't understand how software, which is only being called upon to record a
simple YES/NO vote every ten seconds or so (the time it takes the voter to
read the question and make a choice) can possibly be suffering a heavy load
with any modern computer or networked computing system.

I would have thought any processor later than the old 4004 would be capable
of handling such throughput.


This is a question, not a criticism.

What create the load?

Does the above only apply to the aggregation end of a county-wide network,
or are we talking about individual machines overloading at the point where
the selection is being made?


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