This was caught by processes instituted by the Georgia (USA) state board of elections. The election count was too close and a law-mandated recount requiring hand-recounting was enacted.
Ether way, it is outside SANE's scope (from what I understand of it). We should keep an eye if we get any blow-back but I doubt we'll see much of anything over it. On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 10:43 AM Ralph Little <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2020-11-17 4:24 a.m., Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I got this in the mail this evening. Sigh. > > Not sure how to best respond. > > > > Tyler Sharpe writes: > > > >> Employees from smartmatic contributed code to add support for a scanner > >> used by dominion to count ballots. I'm not that familiar with SANE but it > >> looks like it would be a perfect tool to rig an election. the code changes > >> are here but I'm not sure what they do: > >> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/12#note_139722740 > >> > >> Let me know what you think. > There is a certain kind of madness going around in the US at the moment > (I assume that is where this came from). > It's inevitable that projects like this will get dragged into it from > time to time. Heck, free software *is* a political movement. > That someone would think it weird that a company that uses scanners > would contribute code to a driver for said scanners speaks volumes. > > > To the best of my knowledge, those changes allow one to make a few > > changes that affect how the scanner *hardware* processes the image > > data before that data arrives at the SANE scanner "driver". > > Whether any of that functionality is actually used is not something > > that the SANE scanner "driver" controls. This is controlled by the > > software that uses the SANE scanner "driver". > > > Looks like hardware deskew among other things. > Seems pretty reasonable that Smartmatic would be interested in that > functionality considering what they do. > > Hopefully, this kind of thing will go away in a couple of months. > > Cheers, > Ralph > > -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://redwolf.ws
