Rock The Vote
Posted by goodmind on June 17th, 2008
The electoral process is always contentious, and of late, so has the electoral system itself. The Open Voting Consortium hopes to put all the talk of super-delegates named Chad to rest by applying the principles of Open Source to electoral software;
Though the United States has made a wholesale switch to electronic voting machines in the last decade, the software in those machines is all proprietary and closed source…The OVC’s argument is straightforward: democracy benefits from operating in an open, transparent manner – and the best way to ensure that for voting is to make sure that the software used is open source. They’re putting their money where their mouth is, too: they’ve developed a prototype system in Python on Linux that is open source and designed for ease of use, as well as to preserve a paper trail.
Hmmm, aren’t the Russians switching to Linux too…
(via OStatic)
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