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Re: Open Source, Transparency and Electronic Voting
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. 2007-04-24 07:02:15

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Transparency has become a rallying cry for critics of existing electronic voting systems made by secretive corporations jealously guarding the software code inside their products. One way to assure transparency in voting systems, those critics maintain, is to require the disclosure of any code used in a voting system or use open source software for those systems. Using open source software for voting can add credibility to the electronic process, according to Joseph Kiniry, a researcher in open source software for voting.

Re: Open Source, Transparency and Electronic Voting
Posted by: drrw 2007-04-24 07:08:21 In reply to: John P. Mello Jr.

Fortunately there are steps at hand that are redressing the situation. The OASIS EML specifications and standard provide an open public foundation - and now there are open source implementations that support those - see emlvoting.org on Sourceforge for details.