Re: [tlug] Somewhat OT- open source software for US voting machines

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-10-05 23:40 -0700 (Sun), SL Baur wrote:

> Sorry, Edward, The Open -vs- Closed Source "issue" is a Red Herring.
> Even if you provided each voter with a dead tree listing of the
> computer software in use on the electronic voting machine, you still
> have no assurance that that represents what is actually running inside
> the machine.

Even if it is what's running in the machine, the security depends on the
entire system, not just the source code.

With voting, verification is the hard problem, and the easiest solution
is audited manual counts, mainly because they're so transparent and
understandable to everyone involved.

cjs
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