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DataMeister's avatar

We just about need a law that all voting machines need to have their firmware (or software) open sourced for it to be legal to use in an election.

Penelope Elias's avatar

I have been trying to say that "2 things can be true" to many people for literally years now. Even with my limited knowledge of the relationships between hardware and software, it seems intuitively obvious that the issue is PEOPLE who write PROGRAMS. And unless you have access to the software/programs, you cannot prove anything in a court of law. Enter the vital importance of PAPER. But the question still remains. WHY cannot we get access to the software/programs too? Why can't a whistleblower provide the needed data even if there are proprietory rights and even if the product was created in another country?

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