Submission + - An urgent need for 'open-source' voting systems
laird writes: "The principle of voting in the United States is that votes are cast in secret but tallied in public.
This principle is incompatible with the current practice of using voting systems whose inner workings are trade secrets owned by the voting-machine vendors. Those same vendors pay for their systems to be tested, and the results of those tests are also trade secrets — you guessed it — owned by the vendors.
Full article at http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?sto ry_id=3234 ."
This principle is incompatible with the current practice of using voting systems whose inner workings are trade secrets owned by the voting-machine vendors. Those same vendors pay for their systems to be tested, and the results of those tests are also trade secrets — you guessed it — owned by the vendors.
Full article at http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?st