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Not Worried Enough Yet?
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| For a bit of contrast, here’s a page from Australia’s Capital Territory
| Election Commision’s site, which gives complete public access to their
| open-source voting software.
|
| In one sentence, they explain why they’re smart and we’re dumb:
|
| The software for the electronic voting and counting system was built
| using Linux open source software, which was chosen specifically for this
| electoral system to ensure that election software is open and transparent
| and could be made available to scrutineers, candidates and other
| participants in the electoral process.
|
| I’m don’t think there’s a pill strong enough to make me feel better about
| this one.
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http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/not_worried_enough_yet
Other nations too are choosing GNU/Linux for their voting machines.
Recent:
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
|
| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
Open source software use sought in automated election system
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| A newly organized group of information technology professionals has called on
| government to use open standards and open source technology for the
| automation of elections in the Philippines.
|
| [...]
|
| Ito Gruet, who is an IT professional and member of the Advocacy for Open
| Systems in Elections, said the use of open standards or open source
| technology would promote "transparency" in the development of the automated
| election system.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080518-137318/Open-source-software-use-sought-in-automated-election-system
LinuxWorld gets an open source voting tryout
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| The Open Voting Consortium is giving its open source based voting machines a
| trial run at LinuxWorld, currently being held in San Francisco. In a mock
| election ballot for the 2008 Presidential election, attendees will be able to
| vote and see the votes tallied on a half hourly basis and see how the system
| supports recounts.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/LinuxWorld-gets-an-open-source-voting-tryout--/news/111243
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