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| | Name : | Warren Smith | Organization : | N/A | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Comment : | LIMITS ON COMPUTING POWER AND SECRET MANIPULABILITY:
If a voting machine contains a computer, then it should be demanded
that the computer contain
* at most 1 Kbyte of random-access read/write memory, including
"registers" and "cache".
* unlimited amount of read-only random access memory (ROM) but all
ROM is required to be built-in and not easily replaceable.
* unlimited amount of write-only random access memory.
* unlimited amount of unidirectional-sequential-access read/write
memory.
(In the above, "memory" includes both semiconductor, magnetic, or any
other kind, and any removable rewriteable media such as disks.
"Write-once"
memory such as PROMs or writeable optical disks does NOT count as
"read-only" -
it counts are "writeable" even if the voting machine itself does not have
that writing capability.)
* The clock rate of the computer shall be at most 10 MegaHertz.
* All software must be made public by the manufacturer,
on a US government web site, at least a year before the machine is
used and throughout the operation of the machine, and in
both compiled and source-code forms, and with that source code
agreed by experts to be "clearly written". | |
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