Bringing Democracy to America with FOSS: voting
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| It's now over a month after the November 7, 2006 midterm elections,
| and the verdict in Florida's 13th Congressional district is still up
| in the air. Why? Over 18,000 votes for the House seat are missing,
| vanished, or somehow just don't exist see here.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/bringing_democracy_to_america_with_foss_voting
Related:
E-Voting Raises New Questions in Brazil
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| Some Brazilians are lobbying the tribunal to switch from Windows CE to
| an open-source operating system for the voting machines, since Microsoft
| Corp., citing trade secrecy, won't allow independent audits to make
| sure malicious programmers haven't inserted commands to "flip" votes
| from one candidate to another.
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| Fontoura confirmed that Brazil is considering a move away from
| crosoft's proprietary code -- "We are studying the possibility of using an
| open-source program like Linux in future elections. This would make the
| entire process much more transparent and far less expensive," he said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060929/brazil_electronic_voting.html?.v=2
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