John Edwards on Open Source Voting Machines

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 29, 2007 @07:38PM from the let's-get-an-interview-set-up dept.

goombah99 writes "John Edwards, the presidential candidate and lawyer, is standing out from the pack by showing himself to be a bit tech savvy. In 2003 he was a guest host on Lawrence Lessig's Blog, giving his view on the imbalance between property right protection and the good of public access. As of this week he has become the first presidential candidate to support 'open source code' for election systems in addition to voter verified paper records. He's even personally using Twitter. 'Currently, software used in election systems remains the proprietary property of vendors. This situation has created a continual problem when anomalous results have been reported and independent experts are denied the ability to review how the systems work. A growing body of critics oppose this privatization of the voting system.'"

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Ron Paul by lowell · 2007-06-29 19:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ron Paul is the only choice
You're wrong. by TodMinuit · 2007-06-29 20:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You're completely wrong about health care. Reason magazine gives a good summary why the government shouldn't be involved with health care. Further, Dr. Paul certainly knows much more about the health care system than you or I.

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