Comments on: E-voting jitters abound

Security expert Herbert Thompson says secure e-voting depends on further advances in software engineering. Until then--keep your fingers crossed.

0 percent error rate in e-voting machines in AU

Perhaps we should consider open-source voting machines instead of the proprietary status-quo from diebold/microsoft?...

"Problem #1: We can't count votes correctly
Solution: Open-source the voting machines."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/idol.html?pg=3&topic=idol&topic_set=
(Wired Magazine - Sept. 2004)

Not suggesting open-sourcing the voting itself, just the software and the machines that they are running on...industry has already shown that thousands/millions of sets of eyes working on a project can find failures much easier and more quickly than most proprietary solutions...

0 percent error rate in e-voting machines in AU

Perhaps we should consider open-source voting machines instead of the proprietary status-quo from diebold/microsoft?...

"Problem #1: We can't count votes correctly
Solution: Open-source the voting machines."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/idol.html?pg=3&topic=idol&topic_set=
(Wired Magazine - Sept. 2004)

Not suggesting open-sourcing the voting itself, just the software and the machines that they are running on...industry has already shown that thousands/millions of sets of eyes working on a project can find failures much easier and more quickly than most proprietary solutions...

[My-Self]

It's not a bug, it's a feature ...

Trustworthy voting machines (hardware & software) would be the best place for the Open Source movement to make a significant contribution to our world, unless they understand all too well that the flaws and lack of traceability in electronic voting machines are not a bug, but their most important feature ...

http://tinyurl.com/6fctc

http://tinyurl.com/4hvzc

Florida 2004 (humor) ...
http://tinyurl.com/6bn3v

[My-Self]

It's not a bug, it's a feature ...

Trustworthy voting machines (hardware & software) would be the best place for the Open Source movement to make a significant contribution to our world, unless they understand all too well that the flaws and lack of traceability in electronic voting machines are not a bug, but their most important feature ...

http://tinyurl.com/6fctc

http://tinyurl.com/4hvzc

Florida 2004 (humor) ...
http://tinyurl.com/6bn3v