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May 8, 2006 :: Volume 2, Issue 4
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Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting

Posted by TimSlavin at November 3, 2003

"While critics in the United States grow more concerned each day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the software running their system completely open to public scrutiny.

Although a private Australian company designed the system, it was based on specifications set by independent election officials, who posted the code on the Internet for all to see and evaluate. What's more, it was accomplished from concept to product in six months. It went through a trial run in a state election in 2001." Terrific example of how to harness private enterprise to open source to solve an important social problem. From Wired.

URLs:

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61045,00.html

UPDATE: I see the original Wired article link no longer works. Here are links that do work, including a link to a page that links to the source code:

http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html />
http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html
http://www.softimp.com.au/index.php?id=evacs

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