:NewsForge: How Open is Open Enough for Electronic Voting?
NewsForge: How Open is Open Enough for Electronic Voting? Sep 2, 2004, 02 :30 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6873 reads) (Other stories by Jay Lyman)
"Most of the attention and current criticism of America's e-voting infrastructure and technology is focused on the lack of a verifiable paper audit trail, but an equally prominent issue is the closed nature of election system certification, companies, and software.
"Many e-voting experts stress that true open source software for elections--meaning publicly available source code--is just as important as a paper record. However, there are also those that argue open source is simply too open to be secure..."
