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Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State

Posted by kdawson on from the you-call-that-a-distro dept.

daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"

2 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Still wrong by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux doesn't make electronic voting a good idea though. How can we check the published program is the one running ? It is akin to use opaque voting boxes without showing they are empty first.

    Spread the word to fellow voters : if YOU can't understand how the vote is secured, refuse the voting system !

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    The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
  2. Re:A couple of things by GigaplexNZ · · Score: 4, Informative

    As for odd letters, some political party programmer needs a course in logic. Just because my brother and sister live at the same address and share a last name, they are not Mr and Mrs.

    Had you replaced WA with Tasmania, I would have disagreed with you right there.