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Election Industry Trade Group Issues Report Examining Open Source Voting
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| The report, entitled, “Open Source: Understanding its Application in the
| Voting Industry” reveals the need for policymakers to continue treating
| proprietary and open source products as separate and distinct.
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http://ca.sys-con.com/node/919499/print
Recent:
UP taps open source voting system
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| THE University of the Philippines in Diliman held its first campus-wide
| computerized elections for the student council last month, with more than
| 10,000 students casting their votes and the results coming only minutes after
| the precincts were declared closed.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=interactive1_mar30_2009
Related:
Open source software use sought in automated election system
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| A newly organized group of information technology professionals has called on
| government to use open standards and open source technology for the
| automation of elections in the Philippines.
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| [...]
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| Ito Gruet, who is an IT professional and member of the Advocacy for Open
| Systems in Elections, said the use of open standards or open source
| technology would promote "transparency" in the development of the automated
| election system.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080518-137318/Open-source-software-use-sought-in-automated-election-system
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
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| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
Linux Voting Machines Save US$ 8 Millions in Brazil
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| Brazilian Goverment will save US$ 8 Millions in election between 2008 and
| 2018. The economy is due to the use of Linux in the eletronic voting
| machines, made by Procomp-Diebold,
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http://www.brnews.info/index.php/2008/04/06/linux-voting-machines-save-us-8-milions-in-brazil/
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