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E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vote-of-confidence dept.

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."

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  1. Open the Moderation Code by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

  2. In Other News... by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  3. Re:First Glance by alecks · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Re:No by MoonBuggy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Summary of the source by hng_rval · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Summary of the source by Nynaeve · · Score: 4, Funny
      A possible code snippet if the programmer forgets to put in break statements:

      switch (vote)
      {
      case E_GORE: nGore++;
      case E_BUSH: nBush++;
      default:
      }
  6. Re:First Glance by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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  7. Re:First Glance by jpetts · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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  8. Re:First Glance by forii · · Score: 3, Funny

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