Cory is encouraging IEEE members to urge that organization to fly right in its recommendations on electronic voting machines. The EFF is pushing the issue. (You are a member, aren’t you?) Cory writes:

The people who are writing the IEEE standard for voting
machines have been doing their best to rig their deliberative process
ot exclude input from non-vendors who want the standard to include
performance metrics that will guard against electoral malfeasance. This
is heavy stuff: the standard this committee produces will likely form
the basis of the US goverment’s voting-machine purchases (as well as
those of governments abroad), and if there are holes in the standard
today, they will be biting our democracies on the ass for decades.
There’s never been a clearer demonstration that “architecture is
politics.”

We have to get this right. It cuts to our faith in the legitimacy of elections. Lose that and you lose democracy.

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