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Seeking The Source For Ireland's E-Voting System
WeeBull writes "Michael Cunningham from p45.net tried to request 'the source code of the electronic voting system first used in Ireland's May 2002 general election, plus any supporting technical documentation supplied to the Department of Environment and Local Government including the functional specifications' under Ireland's Freedom of Information legislation. The result wasn't what he expected ..."
The result wasn't what he expected
You mean he got everything he asked for, overnight, with no questions asked?
You mean a company or government actually bought a piece of software without the source code!
What kind of world are we living in?
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
With any luck this will spur the government into trying to obtain the source code. Of course, we all know the truth: The government that bought the software will never again lose an election!
In order to be immortal you must be organize
Pencil marks can be erased thus creating problems with fraud, ambiguous votes and the like. I suggest that you guys over there in Germany switch from pencil to pen, and solve that particular problem.
See, the source code for Germany's voting system is open source, and I quickly saw a potential problem and proposed a solution.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Of course: because we all know that "The computer doesn't lie.
...and let's proclaim that the President is directly nominated by IBM, CGEY, or whatever IT corporation wrote the sofware.
It would be as in the XVIIth century with the King choosen by God. Easy and cheap!
Then we can proceed to the next logical step: the revolution.
Christophe (Don't hesitate to point out my spelling and grammar mistakes, I want to learn - Thanks).
Behold our new king! Whose right to rule was handd down by root himself.
Ah that might explain why the unknown Hans Lederhosen Beckenbauer was elected by a landslide majority in Dublin.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
the United States of America just switched to an electronic voting system.
In an unrelated matter, Bill Gates is now President despite not even being present on the ballot or this being an election year. George Bush was called a "sore loser" by the media; why can't he just accept that the recount clearly shows Gates ahead by 8 million votes?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.