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:LinuxWorld Australia: Evoting Pioneer Plays Politics with Open Source
LinuxWorld Australia: Evoting Pioneer Plays Politics with Open Source
Aug 11, 2004, 16 :45 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6462 reads)

(Other stories by Steven Deare)

"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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New Scientist: Electronic Voting Source Code Released(Apr 08, 2004)


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We must be careful on the eVoting issue  ...   eVote - GPL vs public examination   
Dale Pontius
Aug 11, 2004, 17:03:08
 
Unless they rewrite the whole thing (in  ...   Can they do that?   
Toblemo
Aug 11, 2004, 18:07:00
 
They cannot stop anyone else doing it wi ...   Re: Can they do that?   
Phillip Brown
Aug 12, 2004, 01:04:51
 
Any form of electronic voting is the end ...   e-voting is evil   
anonymous
Aug 12, 2004, 18:10:01
 
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