[templar]

Voting machine code should be kept the most highly protected secret the nation has. It's the only way to assure that only official sources will be able to tamper with the electoral process.

[rs79bm]

I wonder if a secret Gov't agency should be designing this stuff, instead of public companies. That is just begging for trouble.

[supercat]

Voting machine code should be kept the most highly protected secret the nation has. It's the only way to assure that only official sources will be able to tamper with the electoral process.

Nonsense. It should be fully public. If the system is well-designed, publicizing the code will not compromise security but will allow people to verify that the election is on the up-and-up. By contrast, if the code is a super-tightly-kept secret, then it becomes impossible for anyone to know whether the code that's being run is legitimate. Even if the source code is made available to auditors, unless they are given full compilable copies there's no way for autitors to confirm that the source code they inspect bears any relationship whatsoever to the code that's actually being used.