Translating corporate speak

Corporate speak: "our intellectual property"

English: "our right to prevent someone from doing something we don't like"

The "property" they're talking about is a government-granted monopoly in the first place.

So the way to prevent "behind-the-scenes interference with the voting results" isn't to
require independent testing, it's to make sure that the existing copyright and trade secret
laws do not apply to voting software, or to software whose output is government evidence in a
criminal case, as with a breathalyzer or photo radar machine.