http://www.elections.act.gov.au/EVACS.htmlIt's Open Source electronic voting software that runs on Linux and was implemented in a year and a half in Australia. Take election voting software profiteering and corruption and bring it back to the government. Even if we could get local communities to migrate over this this type of electronic voting (along with a paper receipt), we would be on our way of taking our democracy back.
I'd like Howard Dean and others to put this on the fast track.
From the site:
Development of the EVACS system commenced as soon as the contract had been signed in April 2001, with the product successfully used at the October 2001 election.
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Electronic voting
The system deployed in each polling place where electronic voting is available consists of a number of "booth" machines, which are used by individual voters to cast their vote. These are connected via a network to a single "ballot box" machine which acts as a server for the polling place, recording votes as they are cast and providing information to the booth machines when necessary.
The machines in the polling place are not connected to any external network for security, and at the end of polling the votes are physically transported from the ballot box machine to the counting (back-end) system by zip disks.
Electronic counting
The back-end system consists of a number of data entry workstations and the counting server. The data entry workstations are used by data entry operators to enter manually cast (paper) ballots. These are recorded on the counting machine, which also receives (via zip disks) the electronic ballots. Once the ballots are received/entered, EVACS then performs a Hare-Clark scrutiny to produce the results of the election, and also reports similar to those produced during the manual counting process. The counting server is also used to perform some of the administrative functions needed for the system, such as generating the barcodes used for authentication.