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
Why not Diebold/Windows?
Hardware Hacking a Voting Machine in 4 Minutes
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| She has since demonstrated a successful penetration of the seals without
| breaking them ... all in under 4 minutes with no training or technical
| skills required.
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| It's perhaps worth noting that the open source voting system being
| developed by the Open Voting Consortium features a 100% reconciliation of
| every single paper ballot with an independent electronic record."
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/160251&from=rss
Also confer:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6129761
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