[liberationtech] NEWS: Making Voting Open Source Could Change Elections

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*Making Voting Systems Open Source Could Forever Change Election Technology*
*Government Technology (03/30/10) Collins, Hilton*

The nonprofit Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation is developing a
suite of open source election software that allows users to see and tweak
the underlying computer code, which advocates say enables a global expert
community to assess the code's security and make positive changes. OSDV's
Greg Miller says that eight U.S. states are engaged in the foundation's
Trust the Vote project, and custom, modular tools might be necessary to
address different jurisdictions' various requirements and needs.
Customization will be built into the OSDV's suite, which could prove
essential in the extremely scattered voting system market. Miller says the
foundation's goal is to have all of its election elements in place and a
system that is ready for federal certification by the time of the general
election in 2016. ODSV developers already have built an online open source
voting registration tool, and a series of Web-based data management services
are either deployed or in the prototype phase.
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