[IP] Wisconsin passes verified voting statute that includes publicly accessible "coding"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@gmail.com>
Date: January 5, 2006 11:37:30 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Wisconsin passes verified voting statute that includes  
publicly accessible "coding"
Reply-To: joehall@pobox.com

Voting machine source code must be made open
<http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2585>

Text of 2005 ASSEMBLY BILL 627
<http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/AB-627.pdf>

This appears to be the first serious attempt by a state to mandate
that voting system code be accessible by the public.  The pertinent
language:

5.84 (3) If a municipality uses an electronic voting system for voting
at any election, the municipal clerk shall provide to any person, upon
request, at the expense of the municipality, the coding for the
software that the municipality uses to operate the system and to tally
the votes cast.

and:

5.91 (19) The coding for the software that is used to operate the
system on election day and to tally the votes cast is publicly
accessible and may be used to independently verify the accuracy and
reliability of the operating and tallying procedures to be employed at
any election.

The effective date of this law is the day after it is published
(enrolled) as law.

-Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
PhD Student
UC Berkeley, School of Information (SIMS)
<http://josephhall.org/>


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