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The 2010 Automated Election Machine Source Code Wars

December 9th, 2009 by cocoy

A long time ago, the daughter of Lord Byron, better known as the Countess Ada King of Lovelace encoded a set of rules to be followed that was to be processed by a device called the Analytical Engine. Thus, Countess Lovelace penned the first source code, which in turn became the first computer program. Today, the source flows around us, penetrates our daily lives, wraps itself around our democratic processes and binds our world together. Every computer system, every computer network, every smart phone and every automated election machine in the world are just glorified paper weights without the Source.

It is easy to romanticize Source Code. It has been done often enough: will you take the bluepill or will you take the redpill and plunge into the rabbit hole?

[The rest of this article is on BlogWatch.ph]

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This post was written in the spirit of spreading election information. Thanks to the good folks over at blogwatch.ph.


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