I'm in Maricopa County AZ and the judges here are not ruling on the points of law but their own personal beliefs. That is corruption and the judges who have done this should be charged if there was a fair and impartial court system.
As far as I am concerned, all software used for public elections should be open source. The whole notion of keeping it proprietary should be rejected.
I'd like to know where all the open-source advocates are on this one. Are they aware of what is going on with our electoral system?
There are two basic approaches to software security. One is "security through obscurity", which means keeping the software closed, i.e., keeping the source code secret. On the other side, there are those who argue that open-source software such as Linux is actually more secure because there are many "eyebells" looking for security holes and quickly patching them when found.
I am not a software security expert, but my understanding is that the open-source model is ultimately more secure, and most high-security cryptographic systems such as RSA are based on that approach. So the claim that voting software needs to be closed-source for security is nonsense.
For public voting systems, the situation is even more critical. The notion that some small group of people at some company should secretly control the voting software strikes me as absurd on its face. Again, where are the open-source advocates on this one?
Of course, it goes without saying that we also need paper ballots. The electronic vote counts should be secondary and used basically only for a faster tally on election night. In fact, a good case can be made that we shouldn't use electronic voting machines at all except perhaps for entering votes and printing out a paper ballot. An organization called Verified Voting has been arguing for many years that we need to maintain paper ballots.
Unfortunately, Ken, Trump can't help her because it's a state matter. The governor of Colorado is a Democrat who is unlikely to be very helpful. But we can hope.
I'm in Maricopa County AZ and the judges here are not ruling on the points of law but their own personal beliefs. That is corruption and the judges who have done this should be charged if there was a fair and impartial court system.
As far as I am concerned, all software used for public elections should be open source. The whole notion of keeping it proprietary should be rejected.
I'd like to know where all the open-source advocates are on this one. Are they aware of what is going on with our electoral system?
There are two basic approaches to software security. One is "security through obscurity", which means keeping the software closed, i.e., keeping the source code secret. On the other side, there are those who argue that open-source software such as Linux is actually more secure because there are many "eyebells" looking for security holes and quickly patching them when found.
I am not a software security expert, but my understanding is that the open-source model is ultimately more secure, and most high-security cryptographic systems such as RSA are based on that approach. So the claim that voting software needs to be closed-source for security is nonsense.
For public voting systems, the situation is even more critical. The notion that some small group of people at some company should secretly control the voting software strikes me as absurd on its face. Again, where are the open-source advocates on this one?
Of course, it goes without saying that we also need paper ballots. The electronic vote counts should be secondary and used basically only for a faster tally on election night. In fact, a good case can be made that we shouldn't use electronic voting machines at all except perhaps for entering votes and printing out a paper ballot. An organization called Verified Voting has been arguing for many years that we need to maintain paper ballots.
Hi Russ, You wrote a great comment. I agree 100%.
Well, Joe, we can only hope & pray that Tina gets a fair trial on appeal! 🙏
I have to believe that the sentence will be dramatically reduced one day. At least I hope so.
I hope enough people are aware of this that Tina will get a pardon if the Republicans win the election.
Unfortunately, Ken, Trump can't help her because it's a state matter. The governor of Colorado is a Democrat who is unlikely to be very helpful. But we can hope.
What does TDS mean?
Trump derangement syndrome