FL Court precedent to open source codes!

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

A front page article in the Wall St.Journal today quotes the Florida's 
5th District Court of Appeal, last February:

"It seems to us that one should not have privileges and freedom 
jeopardized by the results of a mystical machine that is immune from 
discovery."

The article continues: "A court in Seminole County later interpreted 
the ruling to apply to CMI's source code."

The case involves not voting machines but breathalyzers. But, under 
the legal principle of "Stare decisis" ("to stand by that which is 
decided") what's good for breathalyzers is good for voting machines: 
public disclosure of source codes.

We won't (don't?) have meaningful "privileges and freedom" when 
elections can be (have been?) stolen. Without disclosure, nobody can 
ever know.

I urge someone in every County and State file suit for disclosure of 
the source codes of the touchscreens, scanners, voting tabulators and 
operating systems after the next election, if not sooner!

This decision is the precedent needed to win.

Please, the lawyers among you, set me straight if I've missed 
something!


"Sunshine is the best antiseptic" -Justice Louis Brandeis

Evan


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