> I disagree with almost all the comments I have read on this topic.
> It is impossible to verify with certainty
> that any non-trivial program will work as expected.
> You can study the code until you are blue in the face,
> and there will still be simple logical errors in it.
> When an error was found in the Pentium chip,
> how many times had it been tested?
> Billions, probably trillions, of times.
>> But this isn't the end of the world,
> as long as there is a reasonably simple way
> of determining if something has gone wrong.
>> If the worst comes to the worst,
> and it seems reasonably likely that an error has occurred in a vote,
> the vote can always be held again -
> as would happen now if for example
> a car carrying the votes was involved in an accident,
> causing the ballot-papers to be scattered.
>> In my opinion it is a waste of time and money
> to test the e-voting machines more than they have been tested.
I would have been happy if they simply posted the code on their website.
Not that I would actually review it myself, but I would be sure thousands
of others would ;--0
Conor Wynne
Dublin
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