E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code

Kodi writes "VoteHere has decided to release their source code so that other people will have confidence in it (MSNBC, press release.) It's definitely NOT open source (unlike OVC) but it's still a step in the right direction."

Comments

Open the Moderation Code

[Anonymous Coward]

Now, if only slashdot would 'Open' their source (secret blacklists, obscured karma scores, hidden moderations, editor modpoints and bitchslaps).

Time to stop this hypocrisy of criticizing closed e-voting, while implementing it here.

In Other News...

[ravenspear]

In a move to inspire confidence, Diebold agrees to have Microsoft review their code.

The company was quoted as saying, "Microsoft's highly qualified software testers will objectively review all source to determine any bugs. We are confident their analysis will put speculation about the reliability of our software to rest."

Re:First Glance

[alecks]

Are you saying that You read the article, registered to download source code, browsed through it, and still managed to get FP?

Re:First Glance

[monstroyer]

Subscriber bonus. I see the future baby.

Re:First Glance

[scumbucket]

Wow. I'm just surprised it's not in COBOL.........

Re:No

[MoonBuggy]

There's a simple test - if we start seeing cowboyneal options on the next US election we know that the real source was released to, and hacked by, the /. community.

Summary of the source

[hng_rval]

If (Vote == Bush)
BushVotes++;
Else If (Vote == Gore)
If (Rand % 10 == 1)
BuchannenVotes++;
Else
GoreVotes++;

Re:Summary of the source

[Nynaeve]

A possible code snippet if the programmer forgets to put in break statements:

switch (vote)
{
case E_GORE: nGore++;
case E_BUSH: nBush++;
default:
}

Re:First Glance

[meringuoid]

Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria

This is voting software, with which one would run an election in a democracy. Wouldn't we be happy if these countries downloaded and used it?

Then there would be no more phony rigged elections in these places - you can't possibly rig an e-voting machine, Diebold said so.

Re:First Glance

[jpetts]

Are you saying that You read the article, registered to download source code, browsed through it, and still managed to get FP?

No problem: he's the /. subscriber...

Re:My Idea

[Rope_a_Dope]

We can't get more than 20% of the population to vote, but you expect people to compile their own software?

I bet 80% of the people that do actually vote would be wondering just what button to push on their WebTV or AOL account to compile the source.

Re:Reading this story

[internewt]

I believe the statistic is that only 1 out of every 10 person... in America votes in the presidential election.

I thought it was 11 out of 10 in Florida?

Re:First Glance

[whovian]

There's only one subscriber?!?!

Re:First Glance

[forii]

No problem: he's the /. subscriber...
I always wondered who that sucker was.

Re:First Glance

[Anonymous Coward]

"That is almost certainly because it contains strong encryption"

Does that mean you can export Diebold code?

Odd Code Fragment

[Tatarize]

void ProcessVote(string person) {
int votes = 0;
if (person == "Bush) votes += 2;
else { votes++; }
CountVote(vote,votes);
}