Linux Journal: Using Unicode to Power the World’s Largest Democracy

“With the upcoming US elections occurring this November, there
have been lot of discussions regarding the use of open source in
the technology that facilitates the electoral process. The center
of attention and focus of these discussions has been electronic
voting machines. But half-way across the planet, in the State of
Maharashtra, India, the focus is on another aspect of the election
process–the voter list. In a multilingual country such as India,
access to the voter list in local languages is as pivotal as the
democratic activity of voting itself…”

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