The U.S. DRE vendors want to sell high-priced proprietary voting machines.
Instead of having US taxpayers spend more money on proprietary voting machines of questionable quality, Selker says that we should follow in the footsteps of Brazil, which deployed DREs in the 1990s and is currently working on the second generation of these machines.
And when the EVEREST study did in fact look at the source code for these proprietary voting machines in Ohio, they found a level of ineptitude that would never be tolerated that would be widely flamed and fixed in the open source world.
The actual news: Agora, a Swiss company with a proprietary blockchain-based voting system, was one of the "accredited observers" providing an independent vote count for comparison to the main tally, according to CoinDesk.
Instead, members of the bureaucracy administering the election use a proprietary formula to convert vote totals into close-but-not-quite-representative electoral vote equivalents, which are used to decide how electoral votes are apportioned.
Mr. Saft pointed out that under the terms of the co-op's proprietary lease, a two-thirds vote of the shareholders was necessary to terminate Mr. Pullman's tenancy because of objectionable conduct.
And while the board may be able to amend the bylaws on its own, amending the proprietary lease typically requires a vote of a "supermajority," often two-thirds of the shares.
It makes no sense to allow private companies to count votes using secret, proprietary software.
E-voting companies are working to address these problems, but Bowen is still frustrated that the software running on voting machines is proprietary.
In a statement, Pepsi said it was committed to maintaining the integrity of the contest, and that it deployed a variety of proprietary methods to identify fraudulent votes and remove them from the system.
