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Open-Source E-Voting Heads West

Posted by TimSlavin at January 21, 2004

"A California college student is planning to develop a new electronic voting system based on open-source software created in Australia." Finally. I posted an item about this issue last November, also a Wired article, Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting. There is no need for closed voting software when an excellent open source code base exists that can be modified to include printing vote receipts. From Wired News. The current article includes links and lots of good detail on this issue.

I also see that the Washington Post has an article, Report Finds Internet Voting System Is Vulnerable on another aspect of the electronic voting issue.

And Business 2.0 has an item with links about Diebold's recent woes with electronic voting. (If you don't know, Diebold set off a firestorm of criticism in 2003 when their CEO sent an email promising to re-elect the current President, their source code was stolen off the internet, and documents surfaced that showed their code was unstable.)

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