meaner gene
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- Feb 11, 2017
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NOPE. The server doesn't do polling.Dude - here's some math - "unofficial election results" means a stream
People vote asynchronously. There are two choices, notify the server as each vote is cast, or buffer the votes and transmit them as a block
Did you think the server did cyclic polling?
It doesn't know the IP address of computers communicating to them, since the wireless modems don't have static IP.
The individual voting machine, or precinct tabulator would at the conclusion of voting, have it's modem turned on, receive a random IP address, and with it establish a connection to the county or state server, using a secured (password protected) protocol, and upload it's vote totals.
Then the modem would be turned back off.