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Demo of Free Software Voter-Verifiable Voting
Posted by Steven Wu on Saturday, March 27 @ 18:35:57 EST
Contributed by Lulu_of_the_Lotus-Ea
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Lulu_of_the_Lotus-Ea writes "The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is holding a demonstration of its Free Software voting system in Santa Clara, California on April 1, 2004 (yeah, I know the date, but it's not a joke). An announcement on the OVC homepage has further details. The Sourceforge hosted EVM2003 project of the OVC has produced touchscreen and vision-impared interface voting systems that produce visually inspectable (or machine-aided audio verification) paper ballots. As well, OVC will demonstrate systems for reconcilliation and reporting of precint results, and provide handouts and a presentation explaining the virtues of a publicly inspectible system with a tamper-proof paper trail."

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It would be great if this works, given that electronic voting has encountered so many problems before."

 
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Re: Demo of Free Software Voter-Verifiable Voting (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28 @ 12:21:22 EST
Something their press-release doesn't say is that you should show up early if you plan to go... that is, the demo starts at 10am but there will be a great April-foolsy skit by [Jim March][1] starting at 9am.

[1]: http://www.equalccw.com/voteprar.html


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