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Wisconsin Requires Open Source, Verifiable Voting
AdamBLang writes "Previously covered on Slashdot, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle today signed legislation that "will require the software of touch-screen voting machines used in elections to be open-source. Municipalities that use electronic voting machines are responsible for providing to the public, on request, the code used." Madison's Capital Times reports "the bill requires that if a municipality uses an electronic voting system that consists of a voting machine, the machine must generate a complete paper ballot showing all votes cast by each elector that is visually verifiable by the elector before he or she leaves the machine.""
...but sadly, it is.
You hand them an unprinted ballot, they walk into the booth and stick it in the printer.
Of course, you don't want the place that holds the ballot in the booth either. That needs to be in the center of the room where people can't tamper with it. Likewise, put the shredder there so you can watch people shred their ballots.
But all this discussions focuses on an fundimental falsehood: That it is hard to think of a secure way to do this.
It is not. It is not the least bit hard to come up with an hard-to-tamper system.
Why didn't we start with one? TRAITORS built a system that could be tampered with. It really is that simple.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Do you really think Republicans would allow a re-count to proceed? They'll just say it's a liberal terrorist plot to undermine the presidency, and then declare martial law.
... and then they built the supercollider.