I am a taxpayer in California, USA. The voting machines used there have been proven (time and time again) to be exploitable, brittle, and would require a complete recode to fix. I am a software engineer, and have reviewed the implementation. It is garbage. I don’t want my tax money spent on it. I want an open source voting system that is accountable and audit able, before and after the fact. I want to know that when my vote goes into a machine it is counted correctly. You simply cannot know that with proprietary software.
This article in Wired that was published a few minutes ago demonstrates what I have known for years:
CA Releases Source Code Review of Voting Machines — New Security Flaws Revealed; Old Ones Were Never Fixed
When I read the results of the Sequoia and Hart reviews, I was appalled. This software is the buggiest, most over-engineered piece of shit I’ve seen in a while.
The simple solution is for Secretary of State Debra Bowen to throw out these machines and sue the companies for fraud and gross negligence. Then they can spend the money on making an open source voting system, like the one at the open voting consortium.
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The “crappy” voting machine were introduced for vote fraud. They were meant to be built like that.
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