Open source election systems desirable, unavailable

Posted by Herschel_Cohen on Mar 7, 2006 9:20 AM EDT
NewsForge; By Jay Lyman
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Even if American voters are ready to use open source systems to cast their ballots -- meaning publicly available code under an open source license -- no vendor offers open source software and systems that are ready for voting.

[ED: Why not some effort to do it? Any vendor not wanting to play can be excluded. Remember, a republic is built on the belief you have some say in your vote. If that proves true, over throwing the current holders of power becomes the only option. Hence, this is too important an issue to say it's a nice concept. - HC]

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