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Judge Orders Expert Review of Voting Machines in New Jersey
A judge in New Jersey has ordered a new review of New Jersey’s voting systems, this time by qualified technical experts, in a partial victory for advocates challenging the systems’ constitutionality. State law requires that voting systems be “accurate and reliable.” From our vantage point, these systems don’t meet that standard; because they cannot... »
Tinkering with Disclosed Source Voting Systems
This article was posted at Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker blog and is reposted here with permission of the author. In October, Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc. (“Sequoia”) announced that it intended to publish the source code of their voting system software, called “Frontier”, currently under development. (Also see EKR‘s post: “Contrarianism on Sequoia’s Disclosed... »
Open Source Advances
October saw two announcements indicating strides toward the open publication of voting system source code. First, the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) announced the public release of the first software modules of their planned open source election system. A few days later, in an apparently unrelated announcement, Sequoia Voting Systems announced the public... »
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