Open-source e-voting gets LinuxWorld test run

Computerworld by Todd R. Weiss | Aug. 6, 2008 (News Report)
The system runs on Ubuntu Linux

More than seven years later, Dechert is here at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, publicly displaying the open-source e-voting system he helped develop that fixes some of the problems that he and other critics found in the nation's voting systems almost a decade ago. Full Story »

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 by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 1, 2008

It is good that this system is being covered at all, since alternatives to our problematic voting machines are many, but but mostly ignored. This story is single source. It does not compare the OVC system to others, and has only one viewpoint. The historical context is good, and the story is accurate. I have been following OVC and have tried the software myself.

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