> Voting machines could appear to work perfectly -- except during the first Tuesday of November, when it undetectably switches a few percent of votes from one

> Voting machines could appear to work perfectly -- except during the first Tuesday of November, when it undetectably switches a few percent of votes from one party's candidates to another's. Apart from difficulties having manufacturers publish their code I think another problem will be proving that some (open source) software is actually loaded in some piece of hardware and nothing else or extra. Most products on the market can be taken, teared down and tested for as long as needed. With voting machines the time to proof some software was active during elections and nothing else is the time you have before you officially publish the results. This is an extremely short window and impossible for a large part of the public to verify.