Most likely you have already seen the story about a drunk driving case where the Breathalyzer’s source code was turned over for third-party examination. Naturally, vast numbers of potential errors were found.

This finding doesn’t even necessarily mean that the Breathalyzer gave the wrong result, but it does bring up the question of trusting Government-imposed technology. If the Breathalyzer’s code was far from perfect, who says the e-voting machine isn’t even worse?

When possible, the government should begin to  move to open-source sfotware, allowing everyone to see what code is being runa nd, potentially,  catching the issues before they become, well, an issue.

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