Guest Opinion: An urgent need for 'open-source' voting systems
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| It is time for our election officials to become proponents of
| open systems, too -- and for the public to demand them.
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http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=3234
It is most natural for Open Source to be used for such applications.
Transparency eliminates fraud. Also see:
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
| Microsoft'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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