Open-Source E-Voting for CA
Now here’s a good idea from Wired News: Open-Source E-Voting Heads West
“Unlike U.S. voting systems, which use proprietary, secret software written by private companies, the Aussie system was created by Software Improvements in conjunction with an independent government body. The government placed draft and final versions of the source code on the Internet so the public could review it and provide comments. ”
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“Ritchie said U.S. voting systems are too expensive. He joked to the panel that Florida’s Broward County spent $17.2 million on touch-screen voting machines, ‘and they all suck…. You give me $17.1 million, I’ll take the Australian code (and) make a machine that doesn’t suck.’”
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