To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by peterwwillis on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:31PM (#14924083)

Using that procedure, two of the largest states in the US have failed to complete counting their votes in time for an election to be called for a particular candidate, several times over the past four years.

Saying we should ignore US elections as an example is totally ridiculous.

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by pedrocr on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:14PM (#14924433)

>"You run a lot of small precints"

The US fails to do this and then has a problem counting fast enough. We should ignore the fact that the US is incapable of running proper elections since we have plenty of examples across the world of well run elections.

>failed to complete counting their votes in time for an election to be called for a particular candidate

This is another example of not running a proper election. If you haven't counted the vote the election is not over. There is no such thing as "not calling in time". In time for what? The news cycle?

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by dragonwriter on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:18PM (#14924454)

> Using that procedure, two of the largest states in the US have failed to complete counting their votes in time for an election to be called for a particular candidate, several times over the past four years

I'm not even sure what “failed to complete counting their votes in time for an election to be called for a particular candidate”; are election results perishable such that of a count takes too long it no longer counts? Specific examples of the phenomenon you are discussing would perhaps be useful.

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