Reading notes

BuzzFlash interviews Bev Harris, whose “tenacious research over the last year has shown that this idea may be the Trojan Horse of voting machine reform, allowing elections to be stolen more easily than in the past.” First reason electronic voting machines pose a threat to democracy:

Secrecy … What has always been a transparent process, subjected to many eyes and belonging to all of us, has very recently become secretive and proprietary. This happened when voting systems, which should be considered part of the “public commons” were turned over to private companies.

Voting software must be open-source, auditable by anyone. To think otherwise is nuts, really. Any proprietariness is completely unacceptable.