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		pan69 on July 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software used to count Australian Senate votes is ... Isn't that a conflict of interest? I mean, who or what pays for the development of the implementation?

harkyns_castle on July 16, 2014 [–]

I'm uneasy about that... presumably they get funded from our taxes. I'd have to guess any profit they make is put back into the pockets^w system, but not responding to FOI's on the basis of a commercial interest strikes me as weird.

Must be some impressive VB coding in any case.

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