Reply #77: Voting should be open source

[pokerfan]

In fact if anything in the world has ever cried out for the open source approach it's electronic voting.

OVC will not run your elections for you. OVC will provide jurisdictions with tools enabling them to run their own elections in a secure, verifiable, accessible, and transparent manner -- very affordable, too. The People will own the hardware. The People will own the software. Together, we will exemplify the concept of Self Governance.

http://www.openvotingconsortium.org">Open Source Voting: Accurate, Accountable

While critics in the United States grow more concerned each day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the software running their system completely open to public scrutiny.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/11/61045">Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting