Diebold's Election Data Off-limits 497
tommcb writes "The State of Alaska Division of Elections has denied a request by the Alaska Democratic Party for the raw file format used to tabulate voting results by citing that the data is in a proprietary format that is owned by Diebold. The ADP says 'The official vote results from the last general election are riddled with discrepancies and impossible for the public to make sense of'. The article contains some good quotes from Jim March of Black Box Voting: 'Copies of these kinds of files have been sitting on the Internet for over two years, with Diebold's knowledge.'"
What is so proprietary (Score:5, Funny)
Who wanted a copy? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What is so proprietary (Score:3, Funny)
Diebold's arguments are as good as SCO's.
Cananda (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What is so proprietary (Score:3, Funny)
But if the data had porno website searches in it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What is so proprietary (Score:3, Funny)
No need to add a separate table, it's just a little application logic.
Re:What is so proprietary (Score:4, Funny)
It's ALASKA for god's sake. They would deny anything put forth by the alaska democratic party simply because it was put forth by democrats. They would probobly deny tax cuts and an increase in oil payments just so that they could push through a version with their name on it.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (Score:2, Funny)
These aren't the chads you were looking for.
You can go about your business.
Move along...move along.
Re:Cananda (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Diebold nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Well, assuming you can consider a win by the Conservatives as being "without any problem."
Re:What is so proprietary (Score:5, Funny)
It was found to be in violation of various patents, not to mention an infringement of the DMCA.
Re:What is so proprietary (Score:5, Funny)
Vote
Adjusted Vote.
Boondoggle (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Solution: Make an X (Score:1, Funny)