How did it become reasonable that democracy can be run by proprietary coding that is not available to the public? It has always been a transparent process based around the concept of secret ballot in a system of verifiable legitimacy. Use of these machines is the wholesale lending of our government participation to corporate interests. It seems clear to me that in a democratic system, transparency is the only means to guarantee legitimacy.Therefore, proprietary code is simply a way to perpetuate discriminatory practices with lack of true oversite. How can government truly consider the interpretation of our votes an option removed from verifiable proof of definitive numbers? There is no proof without full consideration of confounding result factors. Those factors being the legitimate and verifiable individual votes. One person, one vote is fundamental to our democratic process and these machines clearly create enough opportunity for alteration as to require not only paper trails but oversite to the degree that negates any possible gain from the use of such mechanisms. Our votes are not for sale to vendors but Constitutional RIGHTS that preclude any corporate agenda, whether that agenda be current or within possibility.
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How did it become reasonable that democracy can be run by proprietary coding that is not available to the public? It has always been a transparent process based around the concept of secret ballot in a system of verifiable legitimacy. Use of these machines is the wholesale lending of our government participation to corporate interests. It seems clear to me that in a democratic system, transparency is the only means to guarantee legitimacy.Therefore, proprietary code is simply a way to perpetuate discriminatory practices with lack of true oversite. How can government truly consider the interpretation of our votes an option removed from verifiable proof of definitive numbers? There is no proof without full consideration of confounding result factors. Those factors being the legitimate and verifiable individual votes. One person, one vote is fundamental to our democratic process and these machines clearly create enough opportunity for alteration as to require not only paper trails but oversite to the degree that negates any possible gain from the use of such mechanisms. Our votes are not for sale to vendors but Constitutional RIGHTS that preclude any corporate agenda, whether that agenda be current or within possibility.