there is no fucking trade secret unless its a cheating mechanism.

I could program you a not compromised voting system in about 4 hours under pressure and time constraints and im not even good enough to win a coding competition.

it literally is the easiest thing ever. You got your GUI with options. you make sure its secure and cant easily be tampered with reasonably (still really hard to make practically impossible, but can be way more honest than this).

all it does, keep a tally big enough to store the result. no fractions, no anything. just check, click enter, vote for candidate chosen ++ or +1 whatever. At the end, send the result with a checksum encrypted to the central counting server (although really each device for security shouldnt be connected online and should have a multiple party chain of people examining and orally/physically bringing a paper record with them)

either fucking way ignoring the protocol type shit (which I could also handle but would take more than 4 hours planning and could never be totally 100% foolproof nothing can)

there is no fucking trade secret. this doesnt need to be proprietary. if you cant find me a year 2 student for associates degree who cannot achieve this I will die laughing out of the sheer lack of potential.

the only possible thing that could be stolen is a complex fraud mechanism. there literally is no other secret. the only secrets are how cheap they made the machines, how vulnerable they are, and how intentionally compromised they are at the software level.

the fact we even have to debate anyone on its merit is ridiculous since literally 100% of all nonbiased experts in history have been in full agreement that its easy as fuck and should just be open source to be verifiable.

we could literally have some guy build a more honest voting machine for free in his basement from a raspberry pi which is just intensely sad and ridiculous.

the source code, nor the schematics for the devices, in this case are actually worth a lot of money. they are easy to replicate (aside from cheating mechanisms and vulnerabilities) or improve upon even with absolutely no documentation given. Anyone with tech skills and a brain can slap together a device like that. anyone.

I would never win in court, but Id honestly try to present a case where the copyright is invalid because there is no secret. its like trying to copyright 2+2 in this case. the didnt uniquely engineer the mainboard, the screen, etc. they also didnt uniquely write some algorithm for the core functionality of the device UNLESS THEY LIED and it does cheat. period. Id say they have nothing to even own Intellectual property over. that there is no IP.

there is no fucking trade secret unless its a cheating mechanism.

I could program you a not compromised voting system in about 4 hours under pressure and time constraints and im not even good enough to win a coding competition.

it literally is the easiest thing ever. You got your GUI with options. you make sure its secure and cant easily be tampered with reasonably (still really hard to make practically impossible, but can be way more honest than this).

all it does, keep a tally big enough to store the result. no fractions, no anything. just check, click enter, vote for candidate chosen ++ or +1 whatever. At the end, send the result with a checksum encrypted to the central counting server (although really each device for security shouldnt be connected online and should have a multiple party chain of people examining and orally/physically bringing a paper record with them)

either fucking way ignoring the protocol type shit (which I could also handle but would take more than 4 hours planning and could never be totally 100% foolproof nothing can)

there is no fucking trade secret. this doesnt need to be proprietary. if you cant find me a year 2 student for associates degree who cannot achieve this I will die laughing out of the sheer lack of potential.

the only possible thing that could be stolen is a complex fraud mechanism. there literally is no other secret. the only secrets are how cheap they made the machines, how vulnerable they are, and how intentionally compromised they are at the software level.

the fact we even have to debate anyone on its merit is ridiculous since literally 100% of all nonbiased experts in history have been in full agreement that its easy as fuck and should just be open source to be verifiable.

we could literally have some guy build a more honest voting machine for free in his basement from a raspberry pi which is just intensely sad and ridiculous.

the source code, nor the schematics for the devices, in this case are actually worth a lot of money. they are easy to replicate (aside from cheating mechanisms and vulnerabilities) or improve upon even with absolutely no documentation given. Anyone with tech skills and a brain can slap together a device like that. anyone.

there is no fucking trade secret unless its a cheating mechanism.

I could program you a not compromised voting system in about 4 hours under pressure and time constraints and im not even good enough to win a coding competition.

it literally is the easiest thing ever. You got your GUI with options. you make sure its secure and cant easily be tampered with reasonably (still really hard to make practically impossible, but can be way more honest than this).

all it does, keep a tally big enough to store the result. no fractions, no anything. just check, click enter, vote for candidate chosen ++ or +1 whatever. At the end, send the result with a checksum encrypted to the central counting server (although really each device for security shouldnt be connected online and should have a multiple party chain of people examining and orally/physically bringing a paper record with them)

either fucking way ignoring the protocol type shit (which I could also handle but would take more than 4 hours planning and could never be totally 100% foolproof nothing can)

there is no fucking trade secret. this doesnt need to be proprietary. if you cant find me a year 2 student for associates degree who cannot achieve this I will die laughing out of the sheer lack of potential.

the only possible thing that could be stolen is a complex fraud mechanism. there literally is no other secret. the only secrets are how cheap they made the machines, how vulnerable they are, and how intentionally compromised they are at the software level.

the fact we even have to debate anyone on its merit is ridiculous since literally 100% of all nonbiased experts in history have been in full agreement that its easy as fuck and should just be open source to be verifiable.

we could literally have some guy build a more honest voting machine in his basement from a raspberry pi which is just intensely sad and ridiculous.