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[News] All Voting Systems Should Run GNU/Linux; Election Industry Filled with Luddites

  • Subject: [News] All Voting Systems Should Run GNU/Linux; Election Industry Filled with Luddites
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:53:22 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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All We Need is an Open Source Linux-based Voting System

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| We all know how secure an operating system Linux is when compared to the more 
| widely used Windows. So I think one of the best ways to achieve an 
| extra-reliable hard-to-hack automated polling system is simply to use Linux.  
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http://www.junauza.com/2009/04/all-we-need-is-open-source-linux-based.html

Election industry fights open source like it is 1999

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| The Election Technology Council, which has given us years of questionable 
| election results with systems that can’t be audited and whose accuracy thus 
| can’t be guaranteed, is out with a white paper saying that, in effect, if 
| code is disclosed only outlaws will have code.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4033


Related:

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
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