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Why Governments must make voting systems open source
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| Even if the results of the election are not to your personal taste any
| reasonable person may have confidence in the legitimacy of the result because
| they know the processes are transparent and trustworthy with visible checks
| and balances.
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| By contrast, a proprietary, closed, electronic voting system does not offer
| the same degree of assurance. To trust its results you must trust the vendor.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26968/1141/
Open-source voting: Secure over obscure?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22684
Recent:
Yet Another E-Voting Glitch; This One Adds 5,000 Phantom Votes
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| Another election using e-voting machines... and another set of stories
| concerning massive problems. Slashdot points us to the news that a local
| election in Rapid City, South Dakota, was about to go to a runoff after no
| one hit the 50% mark, when someone finally noticed that the 10,488 vote total
| seemed a bit high. So, they went back and recounted the actual ballots, and
| discovered only 5,613 people voted, but the software added up the votes
| incorrectly. Once again, we're left wondering why it's so difficult to do
| simple arithmetic -- and why e-voting companies like ES&S are so against
| allowing experts to look at their source code and maybe help catch some of
| these bugs before they totally screw up an election.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090608/2201455173.shtml
Scanner glitch blamed for election miscounts
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| A Pennington County computer software accounting error, and lack of a
| manually compiled city tally sheet, were blamed Wednesday for reporting
| mistakes in Tuesday's municipal and school election results.
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http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/06/04/news/local/doc4a26be929b134639509302.txt
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 canât be audited and whose accuracy thus
| canât 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.
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| 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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