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Demo of Free Software Voter-Verifiable Voting

Posted by timothy on from the don't-blame-me-I-voted-for-0111001011 dept.

Lulu of the Lotus-Ea writes "The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is holding a demonstration of its Free Software voting system in Santa Clara, California on April 1, 2004 (yeah, I know the date, but it's not a joke). An announcement on the OVC homepage has further details. The Sourceforge hosted EVM2003 project of the OVC has produced touchscreen and vision-impared interface voting systems that produce visually inspectable (or machine-aided audio verification) paper ballots. As well, OVC will demonstrate systems for reconcilliation and reporting of precint results, and provide handouts and a presentation explaining the virtues of a publicly inspectible system with a tamper-proof paper trail."

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  1. What, no backdoors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll never catch on.

  2. Aprils fool ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    On their site they required that you attend the demo in a pink dress with fairy wings on your back.

  3. More OSS for developing countries by MrIrwin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will China adopt it?

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  4. pffft ... Opensource voting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does that mean every polling station gets to compile their own source?

    if ($vote eq "GWB"){
    &flush($vote);
    }
    else{
    $othertotal++;
    }

  5. Re:go OVC! by CanadianCrackPot · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it can accurately count the votes in Florida, then Bush will find some way (buy out???) to through it out. And of course being open source any fixes would have to wait until the next election in 4 years.

    OpenSource: "But we can fix it now!"
    ElectionsPerson: "You can fix the results?!?! SECURITY!!!!"
    Security/Police: "Who are you working for?"
    OpenSource: "Ummm the people..."

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  6. Excellent news by panurge · · Score: 3, Funny
    How can a government of the people, for the people NOT use a publicly auditable system? (caution: this might just be satirical)

    But then, I'm reminded of Terry Pratchett's Discworld continent XXXX: They put politicians in prisons immediately they win elections, because it saves time later.

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  7. Hmmm by bo0ork · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are they trying to do? Make Bush lose the election?

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    1. Re:Hmmm by Jameth · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh my God, you're right!

      They're terrorists!

  8. Re:This has everything that Diebold Lacks by catscan2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting, and probably true..

    One thing that struck me as odd about the United Corporations of America is that they're all competing against each other and trying to screw each other over to maximize shareholder value, which makes them hardly United ;-). Perhaps the Competing Corporations of America would be most appropriate ;-).