Flemish voting machines to run on Linux operating system

Posted by henke54 on Jul 25, 2012 2:05 PM EDT
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The new voting machines to be used by the government of Flanders, Belgium, will use the Linux open source operating system, according to a report by Binnenband, a magazine targeting Flanders' public administrations. The machine itself contains no software at all, no hard disk and only a few bytes of flash memory. For each election, a tailored Linux operating software and the list of candidates is loaded on a USB drive.

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No software at all?? WorBlux 0 1,039 Jul 25, 2012 7:40 PM

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