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CA Sec. of State Panel on Open Source Elections

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the anything-but-the-d-word dept.

goombah99 writes "The Open Voting Consortium has announced that California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson is forming a panel to investigate using open source software in elections. Suggested Panel members include Security expert Bruce Perens and Python guru David Mertz who is associated with the sourceforge EVM2003 voting machine project. This is big since a favorable outcome could help fund prototypes of true open source election equipment and systems."

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  1. Oh goody. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now watch Microsoft and the *AA attacking this resolution on the ground that it is "unamerican" and fostering terrorism.

    1. Re:Oh goody. by UserGoogol · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey... fucking people is hard work too, you know.

      --
      "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
  2. Re:Fear and loathing by follower_of_christ · · Score: 2, Funny
    This could go very very wrong. I have ugly visions of bureaucrats and academics working on this. Bad, Bad, Bad!

    Or even worse. The inventor of the Internet, Al Gore!

  3. Re:Yeah, right, like that will really happen by P0ldy · · Score: 2, Funny

    True enough. "Hobbyist" is just an inch from being "Lobbyist."

  4. why bother? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    You better get your own source which contradicts the Wikipedia version.

    Better yet, just change the Wikipedia version and claim victory!