Source Code Access Denied in Disputed Race

MrMetlHed writes "A judge ruled Friday that congressional aspirant Christine Jennings has no right to examine the source code that runs the electronic voting machines at the center of a disputed Southwest Florida congressional race. From the article: 'The ruling Friday from Judge Gary prevents for now the Jennings camp from being able to use the programming code to try to show voting machines used in Sarasota County malfunctioned. Jennings claims that an unusually large number of undervotes (ballots that didn't show a vote) recorded in the race implies the machines lost the votes.'"

Comments

finally, a black box democracy machine

[musakko]

Instructions: 1. Vote 2. ? 3. Democracy! (oh, alright: and the winner PROFITS!)

time to sort out the mess now

[ajs318]

So, have I got this right -- the Courts of the USA have ruled that a corporation's secrets are more important than the processes of democracy?

I'm really glad I live in a country that still uses pencil-and-paper votes counted by hand.