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The New DU. Reply #95: it's not "just a bug" -- it's "Against the Law"
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Wed Jul-09-03 12:38 PM
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| 95. it's not "just a bug" -- it's "Against the Law" |
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Start looking at the HAVA act for the legal requirements of the software. Legally the election system is required to register the votes precisely. You can't legally field a system with bugs that do not count the vote accurately. The legal requirements for election systems are much higher than your typical ecommerce system.
The legal requirements do not permit bugs in the precise count of the vote.
There are legal requirements for security as well.
The real kicker here is the system not meeting the legal requirements of the HAVA act. Unlike a dotcom system, you can't just say there are bugs, so what, we'll fix them. The system must meet the legal requirements before fielding.
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