[Styxx]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Styxx: It's really, really damn hard to screw up a freakin' counter. It's quite possibly the simplest computer function in existence- it'd be hard to believe that they managed to screw it up this bad through sheer incompetence.

Especially since, if you look at things like their refusal to leave a paper record, regular unlicensed "updates" to the system that don't seem to improve matters any, and general secretiveness about the whole thing, it starts to look really fishy.

Then, of course, the problem is many orders of magnitude worse... The idea of making it open source is good, though.

[kasperl]

Originally posted by karajorma


Any halfway decent programmer should be able to write a program to do this in under an hour. I really can't see we they had a problem. As you say it is very simple.

lessee

this is QB, btw:
start:
CLS
input "official code supplied at entering voting place" ; code$
if code$ <> {insert special maths/time gizmo here} then goto cheat
print "press:"
print "1) for Democrat"
print "2) for republican"
print "3) for Green"
print "4) for some other idiot"
input ; vote%
if vote% is 1 then Dem% is Dem% + 1
if vote% is 2 then Rep% is Rep% + 1
if vote% is 3 then Gre% is Gre% + 1
if vote% is 4 then Idi% = Idi% + 1
goto start
cheat:
BEEP
print "you entered the wrong code, try again"
cheater% = cheater% + 1
if cheater% = 3 then goto killer
goto start
killer:
BEEP
BEEP
BEEP
print "you have mistyped 3 times, please calll for assistance from the staff"
do while x = x
input ; unlock%
if unlock% = 12312421 then goto start
next x

now, at the end of the day, the results could be counted out rather easily, but i'm too lasy to type file handling stuff.

[Stryke 9]

Kas: Oh, crap! You've put them out of business!:p



Now, the problems with security I can kinda understand- using unprotected Access files is pretty unforgivable, but at least it's a mistake that could reasonably be a legitimate mistake. A worrisome one, of course, but not so bad as getting the counts wrong in the first place. But the core problems with counting and the refusal to fix them? The willingness to defraud rather than put on a very simple fix? Ugh.

[Thorn]

last I checked Canada still uses the good old "mark an X next to the name you hate the least" system....

[Drew]

Originally posted by Thorn
last I checked Canada still uses the good old "mark an X next to the name you hate the least" system....