Standards to stimulate e-voting?
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| One of the most basic problems across the states, Brace said, is trying
| to match and verify data when there is no standardization for reporting
| voter registration rolls or for constructing data fields.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6123416.html
See the following recent report:
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
Also confer:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6129761
Diebold, viruses (Windows) and all that...
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