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...voting system shall at any time contain or use undisclosed software. Any voting system containing or using software shall disclose the source code of that software to the Commission, and the Commission shall make that source code available for inspection upon request to any citizen...
...doing this, of course, would have been to buy optical-scanning machines - which comply with HAVA standards, reduce the number of machines required, and already produce the contemporaneous, human-readable physical ballot necessary for true voting security. For those who prefer things truly paper-free: require open source code in any voting machine, and print out a final receipt at the end of the day. This would require no adjustments to existing machines whatsoever. It would simply require that a company like Diebold publish its code...
...course, it’s not hard to see why Diebold and other voting systems manufacturers would oppose an open-source requirement for election-systems—without proprietary code, there’s no money in it. That means that elections would become simply—a public service—instead of a profitable business. But perhaps that’s as it should be. Perhaps elections shouldn’t be for sale, especially at the public’s expense...
...irrigation proposals they consider and approve, the dam proposals they reject or amend. "The religion has a temple at every node in the irrigation system," says David Sloan Wilson, professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. "The priests make decisions and enforce the code of both religion and irrigation...
...Genes (Doubleday; 256 pages), by molecular biologist Dean Hamer. Chief of gene structure at the National Cancer Institute, Hamer not only claims that human spirituality is an adaptive trait, but he also says he has located one of the genes responsible, a gene that just happens to also code for production of the neurotransmitters that regulate our moods. Our most profound feelings of spirituality, according to a literal reading of Hamer's work, may be due to little more than an occasional shot of intoxicating brain chemicals governed by our DNA. "I'm a believer that every thought we think...