IEEE Standards For Voting Machines

kgeiger writes "Voting machine designs and data formats are a free-for-all. The result is poor validation and hence opportunity for fraud. An IEEE standards group wants all election computer systems to speak the same language. From the article: 'IEEE Standards Project 1622 is working on electronic data interchange for voting systems. The plan is to create a common format, based on the Election Markup Language (EML) already recommended for use in Europe. This is a subset of the popular XML (eXtensible Markup Language) that specifies particular fields and data structures for use in voting.'"

Re:Shortest Standard Ever

[MightyMartian]

You forgot 1.1.1.1 "Format like Word 97"

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[Anonymous Coward]

xkcd.com/463/ [xkcd.com]

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[margeman2k3]

Also, http://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]