Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”

Re:Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trad... by sgryphon on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @09:57PM (#8040206)

As suggested, releasing the raw data as input would be better than the source code anyway. The raw data should not have any 'trade secret' or 'hack vulnerability'.

Vote for it on data.gov.au https://datagovau.ideascale.com/a/dtd/AEC-Raw-voting-data/42...

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Re:Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trad... by pwc on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:19AM (#8040553)

You can download the 2013 Senate below-the-line preferences from here:

http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/SenateDownloadsMenu-...

(Down the bottom, under “State Below the Line Preferences”)

I think those files, plus the above-the-line preferences should be enough to re-do the AEC's calculation... I would be interested to know if anyone had ever tried that.

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Re:Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trad... by Maxious on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:36AM (#8040839)

http://blog.angrygoats.net/2014/01/25/counting-the-west-aust... uses those files I think and is cited in the FOI review as an example of how someone could reproduce their "trade-secret" algorithm using publically available information.

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