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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:Why bother? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll

    An excellent example of "spin". A world in which people are not expected to follow state and local laws, simply because they are "international" and above such petty annoyances. Crazy, but here we are, eh?

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