New Hampster, sorry, New Hampshire, will use open source voting software next week!

[thewayne]

Specifically, three towns will, and will hand-tally election results along side the open source software in verification. Should be interesting. Anyone who wants to challenge the result is welcome to hire a software expert to analyze the code and try to find problems that could be interpreted as vote flipping.

Now, this is not an electronic voting machine, this is a vote scanner or tabulator. People up there use paper ballots, which I think is the safe way to vote.

Pretty cool, IMO.

https://therecord.media/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-software-everyone-can-see/

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/22/11/03/2155238/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-open-source-software#comments

Comments

[silveradept]

Makes sense that a counter should be open source and auditable. Even better if basically all the people involved in the running of elections are nonpartisan and running open source software wherever possible. (And if we can't get enough technocratic nonpartisan people, then we should have them in partisan pairs that work together to ensure the other doesn't cheat.)

[thewayne]

My wife is working the election in Cloudcroft next week, and they do their best to ensure a balance of parties at each polling station.  She is definitely wanted as she's a registered Dem in a very conservative area.