Categorized as: Product Development
There has been a significant change in the underlying technology of the Skypunch voting system that clients should know about as it impacts the verification of ballots. For years, the technology at the heart of the Skypunch solution has been a trade secret and not disclosed publicly. That technology, introduced to the market by AWS […]
Categorized as: Election Tips
I’ve seen this. A client’s election begins and they do some really proper things such as: Unfortunately, I’ve seen times when the beauty of these things almost gets lost in a clutter of aimless and horribly verbose text surrounding it. I’ll not name names or even copy and paste bad examples here (at least not […]
Categorized as: Company News, Other
As written about previously at WVU to Perform Cybersecurity Work on Skypunch, WVU (West Virginia University) regularly performs various red team exercises against the Skypunch Technology online voting system. Less than a year after that activity began, I am happy to report that in partnership with the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN) […]
WordPress, the enormously popular Content Management System, is supported by a collection of tools and practices aimed at enhancing its security. But secure is a relative term and while those tools and practices can help make WordPress more secure than its default installation, cybersecurity professionals still cringe at the thought of using it on high-security […]
Categorized as: Product Development, Time Savers
Before any election, candidates must be chosen. Instead of treating the candidate nomination process as detached from the actual election, the Skypunch Nomination Engine treats it as an inherent part of the election. Nominated candidates—along with any biographical information—flow right into the final election setup, thereby eliminating a two-phase approach and further streamlining the overall election administration […]
Categorized as: Product Development
Right off, this is applicable to those clients whose voters login at a third-party website (for example, the website owned by the organization conducting the election) and are then passed over to the Skypunch website where the voter may view and submit a ballot without being prompted to login again. This is referred to as […]
Categorized as: Election Tips
When including candidate photos on the ballot, photos should be sized to 100 pixels wide x 120 pixels tall. This guarantees the images will have small file sizes and load very fast on the ballot and appear nicely sized and positioned inside the candidate biography window without pushing the biography itself out of the way […]
Categorized as: Election Tips
Despite all that is done to ensure the voting experience is as simple as possible, there will inevitably be the occasional request for assistance from a voter. When a voter contacts you it is most preferable to them to receive resolution to their question right then and there without you having to in turn contact […]
Using FTP to transfer files from one environment to another is a long-standing process. But when the destination for a file transfer is a server residing in a private subnet, one must get around the inability to connect directly to it over the Internet. This article describes how to easily accommodate doing this, but first, […]
Categorized as: Product Development
A change has been made to the Skypunch system that effects large, private sector clients. In this context, large is defined as any organization with 5,000 or more voters and the change is that the system will no longer send email announcements and/or election reminders to voters during the election. This does not have any […]
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