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Designing Security into Campaign System Architecture

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From a story at Wired News:

SFGate has not been alone in seeing markedly increased traffic in recent weeks. In fact, while experts aren't sure if internet-wide traffic is up as a result of the election, it is certain that a wide range of sites have seen impressive gains in site visitors as a result of the election.

Not only that, movement's like the Election Protection Coalition are having to anticipate DoS attacks on our web services (EIRS, Verifier) and even phone services where, at least in 2002 in New Hampshire, a partisan group allegedly hired a telemarketing firm to tie up another party's voter protection hotline.