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DC works on project to put overseas voting online
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| In Washington, the project is being called
| "Digital Vote by Mail" and will be open
| source, which means that the public will be
| able to examine how the software works.
| That's important because it ensures
| transparency, officials said. District
| officials are working with the Open Source
| Digital Voting Foundation, a California
| group, to develop the process and ensure it
| is secure.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/voters-can-soon-send-secret-ballot-from-overseas-96893139.html
District of Columbiaâs Board of Elections and Ethics Adopts Open Source Digital Voting Foundation Technology to Support Ballot Delivery
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100622006238&newsLang=en
Open-source voting technology is the cure for what ails democracy
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62822
D.C. launches test of open-source online voting
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| According to Rob Pegoraro at the Faster
| Forward blog, the District "will let
| overseas voters cast ballots online using
| open-source, standards-based software, not
| the closed, proprietary mechanisms that have
| dominated electronic voting throughout its
| troubled history in the United States."
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| A Palo Alto, Calif., developer of election
| software, Open Source Digital Voting
| Foundation, will provide the new system.
| According to company representatives,
| starting with September's primary election,
| D.C. residents serving overseas and others
| far out of town won't have to choose between
| voting by mailed-in paper ballot or a faxed
| or e-mailed ballot.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2010/06/dc_launches_test_of_open-sourc.html
Recent:
E-Voting in Ghana and the 2012 Elections
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| Only a few weeks ago (December 1st 2009),
| Sequoia Voting Systems became the first major
| company of its kind (Voting Systems
| Manufacturers) to publish itâs source code
| openly for public download and study. You can
| read the following article for more information
| ([...] The move follows an earlier disclosure
| made by the California based Open Source
| Digital Voting Foundation (OSDF) which made
| available the source code of its Prototype
| Election Software in October 2009 (see:
| www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/open-source/).
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http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=173843
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
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.
|
| 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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