NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment"

An anonymous reader writes "Finally, some good news on electronic voting. The New York state legislature rejected an amendment proposed by Microsoft's lobbyists which would have gutted New York's requirements for voting machine vendors to turn over their source code to the state Board of Elections. Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton commented: 'The voting machine vendors have known for two years what our laws said. Now they're saying that those parts of their systems using Microsoft software have to be proprietary? It's just wrong.'"

Was I the only one?

[pooh666]

Who reacted with a HA! HA! Nelson is my copilot...

Not too far removed

[HumanSockPuppet]

Wouldn't be surprised if MS tried to consolidate voting procedures the same way they have tried to do with the entertainment market.

"New to the Xbox Live Marketplace, vote for your favorite U.S. Presidential Puppet in the new 'Red Vs. Blue' civic action feature."

Re:Nothing to see here. Move along.

[jamie]

You rock!!

Re:no its not

[Mattintosh]

Most results are in by the 11 O'clock news.

Here in the midwest, we have you beat by an hour. We get it on the 10 o'clock news.

8-bit voting

[Nurgled]

char voteCount;

...

// FIXME: This won't work if a candidate ever gets more than 255 votes,
// but that'll probably never happen
voteCount++;