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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:Any stats experts want to weigh in on this by Jon_S · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, this was the paper I was looking for:

    http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Republican-Primary-Election-Results-Amazing-Statistical-Anomalies_V2.0.pdf

    Same authors and analysis. But much more in depth treatment of the data and analysis of alternate explanations.