Open Source Voting Software Success

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 14, 2008 @10:44AM from the finally-a-voting-story-to-feel-good-about dept.

elhaf writes "The Open Voting Consortium has announced that they successfully demonstrated the Open Voting Process in San Luis Obispo this weekend. OVC received a request from San Luis Obispo County on the previous Monday to provide software to run their January 12 straw poll. By Friday, they had the software prepared and Saturday's event goes down as a great success for Open Voting Consortium and the cause of transparent election administration. They used Ubuntu and their code is publicly available. Surprisingly, counting ballots is not rocket science."

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Re:Not Rocket Science... by sethawoolley · 2008-01-14 11:54 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah, rocket science, the Democratic Party did it! I guess they've finally caught up with the Libertarians and Greens that have been doing this stuff for years.

Seth Woolley
Pacific Green Party of Oregon Parliamentarian and past Elections Administrator