sequoia leak

[slam]

Sequoia Voting Systems seems to have inadvertently released the SQL code for its voting databases.

http://studysequoia.wikispaces.com/

fucking oops!

It violates the federal rulebook on voting systems on several levels: the rules require that code be hash-checked to prove authenticity in the field for obvious reasons. If the real working code is buried in with the data, no such hash-checks are possible. The federal rulebook is also clear that code can't be interpreted, apparently to avoid modification "in the field" (generally county or city election offices). There is also a rule barring "machine generated code" and since these data files are allegedly created (and managed) by the WinEDS application, the code in these files has to be "machine generated"?

[larryhead]

So, did anything come of this?

I mean.. it's not like we're going to abandon the convenience of e-voting machines, right?

[slam]

well, the state of california is now looking into it i believe. i'm not totally against voting machines; as long as there is a paper trail, and the code that runs those machines is open source. i cannot believe that we have proprietary code counting our votes. it boggles the mind.