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: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..."

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NewsForge: Will 'Controlled Open Source' Software Take Over Election Work?(Aug 21, 2004)
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TNL.net: E-voting and the Open Source Community(Jul 27, 2004)


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Any form of electronic voting is the dea ...   Evoting is Evil   
anonymous
Sep 2, 2004, 18:50:45
 
And, when Canada needed to do a recount  ...   Right !!   
Rick Stockton
Sep 2, 2004, 22:26:42
 
No comment.> Any form of electronic voti ...   Yes, it is. - Re: Evoting is Evil   
David
Sep 3, 2004, 07:31:30
 
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