My members are concerned that if they vote on-line, their votes on sensitive issues might not be truly anonymous. How does BallotBox protect anonymity?
When a voter casts his ballot, it is encrypted in such a way that no single person – even with direct access to the poll database – could decrypt the ballot’s contents. Because of the encryption methods we use, a quorum of the Poll Officers you designate must enter their passwords together to decrypt the poll results, which are then stored without any reference to the voters that cast them. Once the ballots are decrypted, there is no way to correlate a voter to his or her ballot. As a result, to view a user’s cast ballot, a person would have to gain direct database access to BallotBox’s secured server and figure out the passwords chosen by a quorum of your designated Poll Officers. Yes, we take the anonymity and integrity of our system that seriously.
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