[ILUG] E-voting in India

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Barry O'Donovan wrote:
> 
> I know e-voting was/is a hot topic here so this may be of interest:
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7561
> 
> Regards,
> Barry
> 

I agree with that Doctor in India though.

The E-Voting system "can't" be verified unless access to it's source code is 
available.

Shouldn't this be something we 'have' to get rather vocal about in this 
country, before this system gets shoe-horned onto us?

I for one, will never use a system that can't be verified in every aspect, 
perhaps, if the opposition is going to pose a question to the government 
regarding Open Source software and it's use in government, the very top of that 
list should be.

"Can the Irish citizen have access to the source code of the Voting system"?

If not, why not?

Is some random companies supposed IP, so important that a question as to the 
reliability and tamper-proofness of the system really worth the potential 
penality to Democracy in Ireland?

-- 
Bryan O'Donoghue
Embedded Software Engineer

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