[LINK] That AEC Senate vote code

[Jim Birch]

> The Australian government's Easycount Senate vote counting source
> code is in visual basic. 360,000 lines of it.

Aha.  That's why they fought tooth and nail to block it's release: Shame :)

Jim



On 16 July 2014 20:46, Rachel Polanskis <gr0ve at exemail.com.au> wrote:

> 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….
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> rachel
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