Transparency and Access to Source Code in Electronic Voting (PDF)
To what extent should the software code for electronic voting machines be available to the public? Joseph Lorenzo Hall of the University of California, Berkeley, explores the tradeoffs between expediency and transparency and concludes that giving the code to qualified individuals is the optimal solution.

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