[LINK] That AEC Senate vote code

Rachel Polanskis gr0ve at exemail.com.au
Wed Jul 16 20:46:13 AEST 2014


On 16 Jul 2014, at 8:30 pm, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> Seen on Twitter from Asher Wolf:
> 
> The Australian government's Easycount Senate vote counting source 
> code is in visual basic. 360,000 lines of it. Oh, and it's a state secret
> 
> Jan


How could that possibly go wrong? Visual Basic is practically obsolete for about 10 years.
Which means the platforms are probably running Windows XP something.  Which means, well….


rachel

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