Neal McBurnett

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I think both sync points just get in the way. Can we just eliminate them? Especially for the 2017 audit, where only audits of single-county contests are supported, we want...

Wow - thanks, Chris! This is a model PR with just the sort of help folks should indeed be able to use! And I just learned some nice things about...

Indeed. I've used `mkvirtualenv` for years! Just trying to see how those exact instructions would work with `venv`. `wajig` is an `apt` helper app that automatically does stuff like running...

Vet the color choices for accessibility by people with color-variant vision, e.g. via http://colorlab.wickline.org/colorblind/colorlab/

I'm not positive this is relevant, but for auditability, it is critical that software can use publicly-verifiable, truly random seeds, e.g. via dice rolls in a public setting, along with...

I'm always humbled by the complexities of properly addressing randomness, and especially verifiable randomness, in computer software. Thanks for your work here! I'm sorry I didn't notice the work in...

Thanks for that! I left a bit of feedback on #356, even though it has been merged. Are there any examples we can point to for people to test for...

The long is not shifted, it is masked to obtain only the bottom 48 bits. So so long as the seed can contain at least 48 bits of usable entropy...

I like Ron's approach, as I've suggested before. If you chose not to go with that much more flexible approach, then, while I can see reasons for allowing any long...

Server security can be especially important and challenging. The listed solutions don't provide an install that gets regular security upgrades when security bugs are found. I'd like to see this...