Fired engineer reaches deal with election-software company

[RobertSeattle]

Thought those of you with concerns about voting software would be interested in this.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001795328_voting19m.html

[petersjo]

1. It would be nice...

if you would include a paragraph or two so that people who think your lead sounds interesting can glance at some basic info and decide whether it's worth clicking the link to read the whole story.

[E_Zapata]

2. Ditto on that...........

there should be a note at the top of the board saying...if it isn't important enough for you to do a little copy and paste job, it probably isn't that important for over 1000 people to look at whatever it is you insinuated as so important.

[RobertSeattle]

5. Sorry!

I didn't see anything in the story that shouted out to me "cut and paste". Looks like someone did - I just wanted to raise awareness of the story since it seems to be a "local" story at this point.

[E_Zapata]

3. Here are some clips. the story is VERY important......

Bellevue-based election-security company VoteHere has settled a lawsuit filed by a former employee who said he was fired because he'd complained that the company's software was riddled with security defects.

Neither side would say whether Daniel Spillane, the software engineer, received a payment in the settlement.

"We have resolved the matter to our mutual satisfaction and have agreed that we are in pursuit of many of the same goals for election reform," Spillane's attorney, Stan Lippmann, said.

VoteHere manages online elections and markets software intended to verify the accuracy of electronic voting machines. The privately held company, founded in 1996, has shifted its focus in the past two years from producing electronic-balloting systems to selling software to manufacturers of electronic voting machines. As questions have grown in recent months about the integrity of electronic voting, critics have proposed that voting machines print paper ballots that could be used in manual recounts.

Instead, VoteHere is developing software that would allow voters to verify that their vote was correctly recorded and counted on election night. The company has struck a deal with one of the major electronic-voting companies, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., to put its verification software into Sequoia machines next year.


********and basically........this explains why Mr. Spillane seems to have gotten a bit 'cold' about the whole BBV stuff a few months back. He will probably be very well off for life.........turncoats..they are EVERYWHERE!

[leftchick]

4. Kick

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