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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. Re:Bruce Perens? What about Bruce Schneier?? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I volunteered to help OVC, and that's one reason I'm mentioned. I think I'm supposed to be the Open Source expert, although I do security work. Schneiner is several orders of magnitude above me in that regard. If there is the slightest possibility that we can get Schneiner to participate, I'd do everything possible to get him on board.

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.