An election integrity first: public copy of e-voting code

by David Safier

For years, the electronic voting companies have kept the codes that run their voting systems a deep, dark secret, saying it was propriety information -- essentially making our elections wholly owned subsidiaries of private companies.

But Riverside County requests for the code have borne fruit, according to Brad Blog. The code is available at a wiki site for all to see and for the code savvy to inspect. And it's perfectly legal.

According to the wiki site, "For the first time ever, the internal guts of a modern voting system will be publicly examined in a collaborative, open fashion."

Apparently,the company, Sequoia Voting Systems, tried to make the code inoperative before releasing it, but according to Jim March, a major player in Arizona's election integrity community, the company failed.

"We have Sequoia source code here, free and clear and legal to download, take apart and *openly* discuss," he told The BRAD BLOG, "no NDAs, no arguments that it's 'stolen', no nothing. Sequoia gave it to us via public records, assuming they'd successfully sabotaged it. Ooops. Not well enough."  

Let the games begin!