Jill Stein Campaign Wins Court Ruling on Whether, After Examining Wisconsin Voting Software, She is Free to Criticize It

On December 21, 2018, a Wisconsin state trial court issued an opinion in Election Systems & Software v Wisconsin Elections Commission, Dane Co., 18-cv-972. The issue was what the Wisconsin Elections Commission should have agreed to, relative to Jill Stein’s request to examine the ES&S software used to count votes in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of the three states in which Stein had requested a recount of the November 2016 presidential vote.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission prepared a contract with the Stein campaign, letting the campaign’s experts examine the software, if they promised not to disclose it. That contract was prepared in March 2018. Then ES&S sued to force the Elections Commission to revise the contract, so that it prohibited Stein’s experts from criticizing the software. But the Court said the Elections Commission is under no obligation to do that.

The court made this analogy: “A nutritionist might be given access to the secret formula for Coca Cola, which is undeniably proprietary information and a trade secret. It would not be an unauthorized use or a disclosure of the trade secret for the nutritionist to say, “After seeing the secret formula, I can tell you that Coca Cola is unhealthy.”


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Jill Stein Campaign Wins Court Ruling on Whether, After Examining Wisconsin Voting Software, She is Free to Criticize It — 3 Comments

  1. One more distraction machination.

    The software does or does NOT count votes 100.00 percent correctly.

    Where is that Model Election Law ???

  2. Our team the United Coalition USA has been bringing the only democratically legitimate voting system of pure proportional representation (PPR) before all parties and independents since 1993.

    It’s the party bosses who have vicously opposed us year after year, and despite that, our team has tried to do a better job.

    Now we are continuing to demonstrate the unity phenomenon of PPR, not like Stein and Johnson in 2012 and 2016, but instead our team is building on the diplomacy and inclusion of PPR.

    Gogh Ogle [One] in 2020
    http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php

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