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Open Source Voting Software Success

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Not Rocket Science... by jamieswith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surprisingly, counting ballots is not rocket science

    Of course not, however there is a lot of science involved in the process of mis-counting ballots... especially in a way that avoids the possibility of getting caught.

    Those are valuable trade secrets worth protecting!

  2. Voting_thing.tar by gQuigs · · Score: 5, Informative

    "[1] In case any techies want to see some code, here is the program for the voting counting program, written by Asheesh: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ad/voting_thing.tar
    Here is Jan's code (if you want to run it and have some trouble, let me know and I will help you with it) http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/test/straw.tar"

    I love the name.