[kictanet] Tech and Elections Law

[echebukati at gmail.com]

Mwendwa et al,

Access to source code does not necessarily mean the use of Open Source Software.

Even if the software is proprietary, the entity that develops it should be in a position to hand over source code to IEBC and sign non-disclosure agreements if they wish to protect their code. IEBC themselves should be in a position to de-obfuscate and reverse engineer the application packages view source for double verification.

This is simply to ensure that “votes are not being multiplied by eight” and other such incidences do not occur.

As far as auditing goes, the analysis performed should be both static (on the application packages themselves) and dynamic (while the application is up and running) and there are several entities that can do a professional job on this front.


Regards,

Emmanuel Chebukati
From: Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet
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