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Australian Electoral Commission Refuses To Release Vote Counting Source Code

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can-trust-us dept.

angry tapir writes: The Australian Electoral Commission has been fighting a freedom of information request to reveal the source code of the software it uses to calculate votes in elections for Australia's upper house of parliament. Not only has the AEC refused an FOI request (PDF) for the source code, but it has also refused an order from the Senate directing that the source code be produced. Apparently releasing the code could "leave the voting system open to hacking or manipulation."

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  1. Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... through obscurity. What could possibly go wrong?

  2. Nothing to see here, move along. by GrpA · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is ridiculous. The Australian government has already sent the software to Russia for peer review, and they determined that it worked perfectly during the Crimean referendum.

    I see no reason why the code should be further made public.It could only lead to compromise.

    GrpA

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  3. Re:of-course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other words, it's those who count that count.

  4. Re:Hmmm, by Wootery · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait a minute. You're saying pre-SP Windows XP isn't secure enough to be trusted as the basis for a country's democracy?

    Now I've heard everything.