Re:I just don't get it. (Score 1)

Well, you forget who was entrusted with the choice. Accenture chose VeriSign for this project. In case you don't remember who Accenture is, there was once this accounting company called Arthur Andersen who were responsible for auditing the financial books of a bunch of companies like Enron, Worldcom, etc. After all the bad press when those companies went bankrupt, Arthur Andersen ceased to be. But not before they spun off companies like Andersen Consulting, who wisely changed their name to Accenture to further distance themselves from the bad smell of Arthur Andersen. I don't know why we should trust a corporation famous for allowing fraud to occur on their watch, just because they changed their name twice. How do they win the contract to create Internet voting and distribute funds to people like VeriSign?