[CLUE-Talk] OT? Sunday reading

[Jeffery Cann]

I heard a story about this problem on NPR last week.  The story described how 
most of the vendors have no audit trail to ensure that a vote was counted 
correctly, which is scary.  

Also scary are the facts that many of these software voting machine vendors 
are not based in USA (shouldn't we use our own software for our government?) 
and their unwillingness to open the source code.

As I listened to the story, I thought it is a problem best addressed by Linux 
/ open source.  GNU Vote?  Anyone have time to crank this out?

:-)

On Sunday 03 November 2002 11:40 am, 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.

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