Open-source e-voting gets LinuxWorld test run

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 7, 2008 6:21 AM EDT
Computerworld; By Todd R. Weiss
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Computer engineer Alan Dechert didn't like what he saw during the controversial vote tallying in Florida in 2000's presidential election. That was when he decided that there had to be a better way for U.S. citizens to safely and accurately cast their ballots. More than seven years later, Dechert is here at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, publicly displaying the open-source e-voting system he helped develop that fixes some of the problems that he and other critics found in the nation's voting systems almost a decade ago.

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