Quote:robkelk wrote:Truthfully, I don't know about them very well, either . . . and I was in the military for six years moons and moons ago.Quote:Pyeknu wrote:I won't speak about the CSEC - I don't know their culture well enough.
Canada has pretty much stayed with paper balloting as well, though instead of pencil-making-the-X, you fill in the dot and feed it into an electronic reading machine. Don't know if that can be messed up, but I doubt the Communications Security Establishment - the Dominion's version of the NSA - would do that sort of thing.
Having the paper ballots means we can re-count the votes, by hand if necessary, in case of any allegations of irregularities. That's the main strength of the system.
I have heard that the CSE has sometimes helped the other ECHELON partners - of which NASA and the GCHQ of Britain are two - does help in ethically questionable actions against American and British citizens . . . but that might just be RUMINT for all I know.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"