Submission + - DHS may designate "elections" as critical infrastructure - implications?
Demerara writes: I'm fascinated to hear the opinions of Slashdotters on the practical implications of any decision to designate "elections" as critical national infrastructure. Politico has a story here http://www.politico.com/tipshe...
For those of you who have worked on systems that are already under this regime — given that there are just over 90 days to the November elections — what can be achieved with respect to elections — and in particular to electronic voting machines (whether direct recording electronic DRE — touch screen etc — or precinct ballot scanning machines)? What might the designation require of state and county boards (the buyers of these systems) and what would the vendors have to do?
For those of you who have worked on systems that are already under this regime — given that there are just over 90 days to the November elections — what can be achieved with respect to elections — and in particular to electronic voting machines (whether direct recording electronic DRE — touch screen etc — or precinct ballot scanning machines)? What might the designation require of state and county boards (the buyers of these systems) and what would the vendors have to do?
