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:LinuxCult: Open Source Voting Systems Lack Vendors to Provide Them
LinuxCult: Open Source Voting Systems Lack Vendors to Provide Them
Mar 8, 2006, 02 :30 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (4280 reads)

(Other stories by Kevin Lee)

[ Thanks to Kevin for this link. ]

"Instead of painful long queues of filling in ballot forms and putting them in ballot boxes, Americans were ready to use open source systems for voting. However, the real drawback was, there wasn't any vendors out there that offer open source software and systems.

"Open source systems are definitely cheaper, easier to manage and less of a hassle compared to proprietary systems that could be found in Australia, Canada, UK and other countries. Although a lot of effort has been made to bring open source systems to happen, it would be hardly working when most major vendors like Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and others are entrenched..."

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Related Stories:
ZDNet: Should Election Software be Open Source?(Sep 18, 2005)
Stuff: Electoral Enrolment Centre Votes for Open Source(Jul 25, 2005)
IDA: Dutch Prize Awarded for "Most Open Government"(Nov 14, 2004)
NewsForge: A Little Good News About Electronic Voting(Nov 02, 2004)


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  Opening up the source code is only one ...   Open source code is not enough for voting machines   
Jack Carroll
Mar 8, 2006, 05:15:33
 
Opening up the source code is only one o ...   Re: Open source code is not enough for voting mach   
wolf
Mar 9, 2006, 02:48:16
 
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