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[News] Proprietary Software Fails, E-Voting Buggy

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Yet Another E-Voting Glitch; This One Adds 5,000 Phantom Votes

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| Another election using e-voting machines... and another set of stories 
| concerning massive problems. Slashdot points us to the news that a local 
| election in Rapid City, South Dakota, was about to go to a runoff after no 
| one hit the 50% mark, when someone finally noticed that the 10,488 vote total 
| seemed a bit high. So, they went back and recounted the actual ballots, and 
| discovered only 5,613 people voted, but the software added up the votes 
| incorrectly. Once again, we're left wondering why it's so difficult to do 
| simple arithmetic -- and why e-voting companies like ES&S are so against 
| allowing experts to look at their source code and maybe help catch some of 
| these bugs before they totally screw up an election.          
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090608/2201455173.shtml

Scanner glitch blamed for election miscounts

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| A Pennington County computer software accounting error, and lack of a 
| manually compiled city tally sheet, were blamed Wednesday for reporting 
| mistakes in Tuesday's municipal and school election results.  
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http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/06/04/news/local/doc4a26be929b134639509302.txt


Recent:

All We Need is an Open Source Linux-based Voting System

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| We all know how secure an operating system Linux is when compared to the more
| widely used Windows. So I think one of the best ways to achieve an
| extra-reliable hard-to-hack automated polling system is simply to use Linux.
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http://www.junauza.com/2009/04/all-we-need-is-open-source-linux-based.html


Election industry fights open source like it is 1999

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| The Election Technology Council, which has given us years of questionable
| election results with systems that can’t be audited and whose accuracy thus
| can’t be guaranteed, is out with a white paper saying that, in effect, if
| code is disclosed only outlaws will have code.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4033


Related:

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
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