Via Slashdot, it appears that EFF is suing North Carolina because the state has certified machines from vendors who have declined to put their source code in escrow as is required by that state’s law.
North Carolina law requires the Board of Elections to review all voting system code “prior to certification.” Ignoring this requirement, the Board of Elections on Dec. 1 certified voting systems offered by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software (ESS) without having first obtained the system code.
Call me a luddite, but I still prefer my voting to be pen-and-paper.
