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Original Post: Re: Open Source Voting System?
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Sean McGrath - and a lot of other people - have been piling on about how voting machines just have to be open source in order to be safe. I don't really care about the politics of this - let's look at the claim though. If no closed source system is safe for voting, then how safe is closed source for anything? i.e., if you advocate this position, then you should not be using WIndows, or Oracle, or SQL Server, or Solaris, or Java, or Smalltalk (outside of Squeak or Gnu ST) - etc. Somehow I doubt that all these advocates are quite that consistent....
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