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Open Voting at OSCON

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jamie-and-i-are-speaking-too dept.

fmclain writes "The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) which has already been mentioned here will be demonstrating its open source voting system, which includes a voter verifiable paper trail, at this year's OSCON in Portland. The Mercury News (free reg.) describes this as the touch-screen holy grail. Given Diebold's troubles in California this can't come too soon. The OVC has already demonstrated a working system in Sacramento."

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  1. Whew... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Open Voting at OSCON

    For a second there I thought it said Open Voting at SCO.

  2. I'm all about some technology by thebra · · Score: 4, Funny

    but there are so many ways this can go wrong. I think that we should just stand in a big crowd and raise our hands.

  3. Re:Questions... by ignorant_newbie · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Wouldn't it be very easy for someone to patch
    >the software in a bad way and recompile it
    >before installation?

    yeah, because of course no one's worked out a way to tell that a binary is the one you think it is <cough>checksum<cough>, since this whole open source thing is so new that no one's ever installed it in a security critical place before <cough>nsa<cough>.

    you're right, we should run out and install windows right away, since we can trust billg to tell us that our systems are safe.

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    Sitting Walrus Blog
  4. Geek Voters by LordHatrus · · Score: 3, Funny

    This might be enough to make millions of geeks to leave their CRTs and LCDs, and go vote.... just to check out the new system :)