Nation’s First Open Source Election Software Released

“The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) announced the
availability of source code for its prototype election system
Wednesday night at a panel discussion that included Mitch Kapor,
creator of Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation; California Secretary of State Debra Bowen; Los Angeles
County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan; and Heather Smith, director
of Rock the Vote.

“The OSDV, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes, launched
its Trust the Vote Project in 2006 and has an eight-year roadmap to
produce a comprehensive, publicly owned, open source electronic
election system. The system would be available for licensing to
manufacturers or election districts, and would include a voter
registration component; firmware for casting ballots on voting
devices (either touch-screen systems with a paper trail,
optical-scan machines or ballot-marking devices); and an election
management system for creating ballots, administering elections and
counting votes.”

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