Free Screenings of "Invisible Ballots" Documentary
I just found out about the free screenings of "Invisible Ballots", a documentary about electronic touch-screen voting machines. The fact that at least one library system near me is showing this is a good sign, since librarians in general tend to be non-partisan and favor free and open access to information
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1) The software is secret/proprietary - it can't be thoroughly audited by the municipalities using it.
2) People with a strong stake in who gets elected often have large ownership stakes in the companies that manufacture most of these machines.
How did this happen? Was it the "all software is good magic" illusion? That legislators have no clue about how software works? It got snuck in under their noses?
Even being able to dial in the election results by modem from one voting machine to a central location is too much of a risk, let alone all the other stuff.
How did this happen?
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