<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It's actually worse than that, since there is also variation on the county level for certification criteria.</div><div><br></div><div>If the FEC (Federal Election Commission) issued standardized code recommendations for the vote tabulation functionality only, and made sure that code was open source, why couldn't the voting machine manufacturers design whatever system they wanted to, which could satisfy the various requirements at the state and county level?</div><div><br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:22 AM, bandit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bandit@cruzio.com" target="_blank">bandit@cruzio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A college classmate of mine is professionally involved with this issue.<br>
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A main stumbling block is each state has its own set of laws on these<br>
machines. There would either need to be 50 types (well, mainly 50 code<br>
bases), or a commonality of the law.<br>
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