It's funny, other than fuckery, what the fuck would be "proprietary" for tabulation? It's a fucking sorting and adding machine, there shouldn't be any "black magic" lines of code to sort and add, it should be straight forward.
Correct. Why do these machines even have an option for fractional voting or making two of Candidate A's votes only count as 1.5 vote, etc.
Imagine if banking software ran this way. You'd log into your bank, deposit $2000, but oops, now you only have $1500 and another account holder got the other $500. Whoops!
The media is gaslighting that "glitches are normal" but this is simple counting software. If glitches were this normal, no one would ever use online banking.
I firmly believe that someone who finished freshman year in a computer science degree could make a vote tallying application. Its literally just incrementing like 5 variables.
If it was just dumb counting software, it should be relatively simple. What should just be a simple counting program with full paper logs of every action taken probably has morphed into something that tries to do way too much.
Enterprise software companies usually pile every random feature into their program, schmooze and wine and dine the executives in charge of making the final decision, and then give the purchaser easy justification for choosing the complicated software because they get treated like a king and can easily justify buying the complex software because it has more features.
Even besides manipulation and weighting functions, I'd imagine this software has lots of tools for communicating with other machines, sending and reporting data to central sources, being remotely controllable, and many other features that are unnecessary for the core functionality. Buried within this complexity it's easy to encounter actual bugs and hide manipulation functionality even from employees trained in this software's use.
What should be used is some kind of simple, open source counting software available on sites like Github and fully audited every year by multiple nerds.
It's funny, other than fuckery, what the fuck would be "proprietary" for tabulation? It's a fucking sorting and adding machine, there shouldn't be any "black magic" lines of code to sort and add, it should be straight forward.
Correct. Why do these machines even have an option for fractional voting or making two of Candidate A's votes only count as 1.5 vote, etc.
Imagine if banking software ran this way. You'd log into your bank, deposit $2000, but oops, now you only have $1500 and another account holder got the other $500. Whoops!
The media is gaslighting that "glitches are normal" but this is simple counting software. If glitches were this normal, no one would ever use online banking.
I firmly believe that someone who finished freshman year in a computer science degree could make a vote tallying application. Its literally just incrementing like 5 variables.
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If it was just dumb counting software, it should be relatively simple. What should just be a simple counting program with full paper logs of every action taken probably has morphed into something that tries to do way too much.
Enterprise software companies usually pile every random feature into their program, schmooze and wine and dine the executives in charge of making the final decision, and then give the purchaser easy justification for choosing the complicated software because they get treated like a king and can easily justify buying the complex software because it has more features.
Even besides manipulation and weighting functions, I'd imagine this software has lots of tools for communicating with other machines, sending and reporting data to central sources, being remotely controllable, and many other features that are unnecessary for the core functionality. Buried within this complexity it's easy to encounter actual bugs and hide manipulation functionality even from employees trained in this software's use.
What should be used is some kind of simple, open source counting software available on sites like Github and fully audited every year by multiple nerds.