[CLUE-Talk] OT? Sunday reading

[David Anselmi]

Matt Gushee wrote:
> Here's an interesting (and horrifying) site about the sleaze-ridden and
> secretive voting-machine industry, and some of the vote-counting 
> "mistakes" (my quotes) caused by their products.
> 
>   http://www.talion.com/election-mistakes.html
> 
> Hmm ... I wonder if open source could be part of the solution to this.
> 

There are several discussions of problems with technical solutions to 
vote counting here http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/index.22.html.  Search 
on the page for 'election', and Rebecca Mercuri is very informed on the 
subject.

I think that open source is irrelevant to solving the problem, except as 
it is relevant to any programming problem.

Dave