[sudoroom] A call to hackers everywhere

[Jehan Tremback]

Sorry, I meant why are vote input machines needed? I guess the thing where
it prints your ballot where you can see it is ok in terms of a paper trail,
but seems unnecessary.


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at eddan.com> wrote:

> 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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