Sequoia Disclosing Voting System Source To DC

buzzinglikeafridge writes "After Sequoia voting machines registered more votes than there were voters in DC's primaries last September, and the city threatened a lawsuit as a result, the company agreed to disclose technical details of the system (including source code) to the city. Although this isn't the first time the company has disclosed the source code of its machines, it is the first time the machines' blueprints will be handed over as well."

Comments

Why a secret ballot?

[yourassOA]

If everyones name was attached to their vote there would be a way to verify the election outcome. Are people really that ashamed of who they vote for? No one is getting executed or persecuted based on their vote.

Re:Why a secret ballot?

[AK Marc]

There are ways to verify ballots without them being public. The votes would be anonymous, but with verification tracking would be possible. You can't guarantee anonymity, but it's not like the way the voter voted will be printed next to their name in the phone book.

Re:What's so complicated?

[AK Marc]

You tell me. You are the one that asserted that they would be a better comparison. So since you brought them up, you let us know. The banks hide the failure rate for the ATMs to give the public confidence in them, and the government hides the failure rate on voting machines to give the public confidence in them. So good luck. The closest I can find is that the error rate for voting is between 2% and 5%, and that ATMs are below 1%. Now that you have your numbers, what are you going to do with them? Or did you only ask because you know you are wrong and you'll start playing games with numbers and words to avoid your assertion that a revolver is necessarily less reliable than a musket because it's a newer design?