EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Adrienne Kandel
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | .20.2.1.3
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Comment : | 3. Require open code on voting machines. As the president of the American Statistical Association said in a speech, "this is a democracy, not a business opportunity." If a firm is so clueless it cannot program a computer to count and add without invoking trade secrets, it doesn't belong in the business. If its user interface is really helpful it can get copyright protection, like for music.