> Any software for counting votes needs to be “open source,” or at least have the source code available for public scrutiny to allow everyone involved to show that the software is reliable.
Open source, and reps from both parties certify it before election day.
And of course, once certified - NO PATCHES. As someone who has done software engineering in the aerospace industry, you don’t mess with code that’s been through the full V&V process unless you want to go through certification all over again. It’s why we were still linking in some ancient FORTRAN libraries into our software in the early 2000s :D
Absolutely! And for instance, when moving software on USB drives, which we've seen reports of, using digital signatures and 512 bit CRC checks on the software ensures that nobody's monkeyed either with the software, nor the results.
It can be easily done, but the dems will be screaming like stuck pigs when this sort of thing, like voter ID or signature verification, are brought up!
Mark