[sudoroom] A call to hackers everywhere

[Jehan Tremback]

why are the machines required?
On Nov 16, 2012 5:43 PM, "Eddan Katz" <eddan at eddan.com> wrote:

> It's actually worse than that, since there is also variation on the county
> level for certification criteria.
>
> 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?
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:22 AM, bandit <bandit at cruzio.com> wrote:
>
>> A college classmate of mine is professionally involved with this issue.
>>
>> A main stumbling block is each state has its own set of laws on these
>> machines. There would either need to be 50 types (well, mainly 50 code
>> bases), or a commonality of the law.
>>
>>
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