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Electronic Voting Machines and a New Era of Fixing Elections
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| Perhaps in the future more secure, open source
| systems may be available to any country (similar
| to open source operating systems like
| Linux/Unix) but for the moment, Electronic
| Voting hardware and software is produced
| privately, without open access to what is going
| on in these machines. Should we then trust these
| private companies just because they say we
| should? You do the maths.
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http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=172603
Recent:
Ghana: Expert Appeals for 'Open Source' Software Usage
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| The Business Development Manager of the Advanced Information Technology
| Institute, at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence (AITI-KACE), Fred
| Amankwah-Sarfo, has appealed to the Government and other institutions in the
| country, to adopt the use of 'Open Source' software innovation for maximum
| benefits, including cost reduction.
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| The 'Open Source' software, which is non-proprietary, has a source code that
| is transparent, and allows rights to users, which would otherwise be
| prohibited by copyright. Because of its transparency, bugs or security flaws
| could be quickly discovered, and patched.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200809260860.html
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