LinuxWorld Australia: Evoting Pioneer Plays Politics with Open Source

"Electronic voting will be expanded in the upcoming ACT elections, but the developers of the world-leading e-voting software will not publish the source code of future releases under the general public license.

"Canberra-based Software Improvements wrote the software that was piloted in the last ACT elections in 2001. It was the first time e-voting had been used in an election in Australia.

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