Link: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65490,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
A story from the coolest journalist, Kim, at Wired News:
In an effort to increase the integrity of next week's presidential election, five voting machine makers agreed for the first time to submit their software to the National Software Reference Library for safekeeping, federal officials said on Tuesday.
The stored software will serve as a comparison tool for election officials should they need to determine whether anyone tampered with programs installed on voting equipment.
This is a good sign that vendors are actually starting to cooperate and allow examination of source code. I have an RFQ from the CA SoS that is soliciting bids on a source code audit from the four vendors in California (Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S and Hart Intercivic). The weird part is that they only allow 5 days for the bids, then some complicated vendor-option to reject the chosen bidder and then all work is supposed to be done in a single month! (November) Yes, folks, this does seem a tad crazy. I'll post more on the RFQ later.
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