Apologies to Ryan are in order for my delay in sending along his article. Since it posted, a federal judge has apparently ruled that Diebold must comply with the source code escrow requirement: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_11.php#004203 -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Politech submission: EFF challenges Diebold exemption in NC Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:38:38 -0800 From: Ryan Paul <segphault@private> To: declan@private Declan, North Carolina recently established a new set of policies for voting machine selection. As you may already know, havoc transpired after a voting machine failure caused the loss of over 4,000 votes in one county of North Carolina last year. The new law requires that voting machine manufacturers provide the state government with access to software source code. Diebold is currently trying to get an exemption for third party code, and the EFF has pursued legal action in order to convince the government not to provide Diebold with a permanent exemption. I did an article about it for Ars Technica, and I thought that fellow Politech readers might be interested: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051121-5606.html The initial EFF press release can be found here: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_11.php#004171 And the text of North Carolina's new election integrity bill can be found here: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/HTML/S223v6.html Third party code exemptions would vastly diminish the power of North Carolina's excellent Public Confidence in Elections bill, because such exemptions would essentially prevent full disclosure of potentially malicious code hidden in electronic voting technologies. Thanks! -- Ryan Paul <segphault@private> _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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