[The dispute centers on the state's requirement that suppliers place in escrow ``all software that is relevant to functionality, setup, configuration, and operation of the voting system,'' as well as a list of programmers responsible for creating the software.
...The company does not have the right to provide Microsoft's code, he said, adding it would be impossible to provide the names of every programmer who worked on Windows.
The State Board of Elections has told potential suppliers to provide code for all available software and explain why some is unavailable.]
Could it be possible that providing this code information to members of biased state board of elections could lead to the elections being manipulated by less than ethical board members?
That's a core issue, regionally.