[ale] Its over. Maybe

[Geoffrey]

George Carless wrote:

> If there *are* situations where FOSS is not the solution, this is
> absolutely not one of them.  What possible legitimate reason is there
> for keeping the voting system secret and proprietary? 

I can easily suggest a solution where we can all vote in confidence.

First, voting devices should not be monopolized, in the case of the 
Diebold systems, they are.

Second, the systems should be reviewed by non-partisan technically 
capable people.

Third, voting devices such as these should be randomly seized and a 
complete verification of the system be completed, again by a 
non-partisan group.  That's to say, they could walk into a polling 
place, anywhere in this country, select a machine and after protecting 
the existing votes on that device, proceed to validate and verify that 
it is functioning correctly.

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Until later, Geoffrey