Friday, November 10th, 2006, 12:59 pm
Diebold Delivers ‘Binary Blob’ Elections
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IEBOLD machines—or more generally—closed-source E-voting remain problematic. There must be transparency for trust and validation. A standard, old-fashioned and paper-based election has the whole protocols recorded, so votes involve supervision and public understanding. Likewise, algorithms should be made public. The public can then spot bug and make suggestions (patches) until the code is bug free and can be trusted. Is there any ‘paper trail’? If so, how is it encoded? Proprietary formats? Many question clearly arise.
