[sudoroom] A call to hackers everywhere

[Eddan Katz]

Not sure what you mean, but if no machines are used at all (including mechanical ones) and votes were all tabulated by people, it would take a month or more to get election results.

On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:16 PM, "Jehan Tremback" <jehan.tremback at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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