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OSS Election Systems Desired, but Not Ready

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-than-ready dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Even though many American voters are ready for open source systems at the polls, Newsforge (a Slashdot sister site) has an interesting story about why open source may not be ready for the polls. From the article: 'The only open source e-voting effort that Rubin [an e-voting expert] noted was the Open Voting Consortium (OVC). "I don't agree with everything they are doing, but they are all about transparency and open source," Rubin said. OVC President and CEO Alan Dechert says it would take a large investment of time and money to provide an alternative to traditional e-voting systems vendors, but he says an effort known as Open Voting Solutions (OVS) is looking to do just that.'"

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  1. Australia by Kangburra · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here in Australia we have a system that works, and has been used already.

    http://www.softimp.com.au/index.php?id=evoting

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