On 9/23/05, Don Erickson [email protected] wrote:
If sombody were to trojan a keylogger onto the machine, then they might be able to tell how someone voted, or even, heaven forbid, total up the actual votes [and determine a number that does not match the official results.]
Australia has open-source voting machines...
maybe a petition to congress to amend the voting systems money bill so it mandates that the funded systems must have publicly inspectable source code?
Does open-source advocacy, to the mainstream, seem like a fringe activity of privileged whiners? ("the geeks are trying to grab power")
Composing lucid arguments for mandating open-source ("how far behind Australia are we willing to lag, in basic freedoms? We cannot afford to have a freedom gap!") can be fun...
but not in not-here-first KC?
-- David L Nicol We cannot afford to have a freedom gap!