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IEEE Standards For Voting Machines

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-same dept.

kgeiger writes "Voting machine designs and data formats are a free-for-all. The result is poor validation and hence opportunity for fraud. An IEEE standards group wants all election computer systems to speak the same language. From the article: 'IEEE Standards Project 1622 is working on electronic data interchange for voting systems. The plan is to create a common format, based on the Election Markup Language (EML) already recommended for use in Europe. This is a subset of the popular XML (eXtensible Markup Language) that specifies particular fields and data structures for use in voting.'"

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  1. Re:Shortest Standard Ever by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot 1.1.1.1 "Format like Word 97"

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  2. Oblig XKCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    xkcd.com/463/

  3. Re:Oblig XKCD by margeman2k3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, http://xkcd.com/927/