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

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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