The most important open source system: Voting

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 28, 2008 10:40 AM EDT
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Here in the states we are coming up on a very important election - the election of the President of the United States. And I would be remiss if I did not address this topic in a blog dedicated to the topic of open source. The last two presidential elections proved that our system of voting is either broken or corrupt (or both). In August of this year Deibold (the maker of electronic voting machines) finally admitted their systems have been broken for ten years: Chris Riggal (a spokesman for Deibold) says their system contained a: “…critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point”

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Why is any e-voting necessary in the first place? mfioretti 33 1,565 Oct 6, 2008 8:16 AM
born incompetent, or do they get special training? tuxchick 6 945 Sep 30, 2008 1:46 PM
Missing two thirds of the equation. jdixon 6 1,028 Sep 28, 2008 4:27 PM

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