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Bringing free software to voting booths

Bringing free software to voting booths

Posted Aug 14, 2003 4:32 UTC (Thu) by xanni (subscriber, #361)
Parent article: Bringing free software to voting booths

First a nitpick: I believe the full name of the North Korean leader is Kim Jong Il.

The Australian company Software Improvements won an AU$200,000 contract to develop Open Source voting software called eVACS based on Debian GNU/Linux, which has already been used in at least one election for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian Capitol Territory in October 2001 and is approved for use in future elections.

Regards,
Andrew Pam


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Bringing free software to voting booths

Posted Aug 15, 2003 4:46 UTC (Fri) by bradh (subscriber, #2274) [Link]

Software Improvements were (at one stage) teamed with Linuxcare - the Ozlabs team. A number of well-known software hackers were involved, including Andrew Tridgell.

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