So we asked the belgian administration for the code and all detail of the voting system in use.
It was refused to us saying it would not be secure and all...
Then we went to court... it took a bit of time.
The first step was that they release source code less some security feature (hashing, checksum, crypto, ...).
Then we won in court and this year the full source code was made available (no documentation, not a sample floppy image used or description of the hardware)... just the code.
And one of the program was written in a non standard company specific language!
I believe it is likely that some law or something in the constitution say the administration and the election process should be transparent.
But please remember that having the code does not garantee anything since it can be different from the one running at election day. Also you have the bios, the OS, the hardware, ...
Good luck.
David GLAUDE
Forest Simmons wrote:
So far there are no laws that require these companies to reveal the internal workings of their machines.
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