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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. Today, digital votations in Spain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Today (march 24th) in Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (The Basque Country's University) they will elect the new vice chancellor that will rule the university.

    They will use a system called Demotek that is made by four basque companys (Ibermatica, Ikusi, Hunolt and Euskaltel), and uses a really curious way for voting, half analogic, half digital. The voter uses a normal paper for voting, but the ballot paper has a bar code that is read when it is inserted in the ballot box.

    The results are available in the moment that the ballot boxes are closed. But, they are not official until the ballot papers are counted.

    - It's a easy way because there are no skills necesary (it's not necesary to know using a computer). My grandmother can use it.

    -It's a safe way, because there are always the ballot papers for testing if the system was ok and no one has cheat the results.

    - It's a fast way for knowing the results. No more Florida like recounting needed.

    Sorry for my awfull english

    Marcus Ramius