BBV: Open-Source E-Voting Heads West

[GregD]

The latest from Kim Zetter @ Wired - if anyone has been consistently on this story, it is Kim, who attends each and every CA VSP (Voting Systems Panel) meeting and is following this story closely. Appreciation for her dilligence is well-deserved. (comments link on the below story)

This young fellow was at the January VSP meeting, and had just filed incorporation papers. His project deserves a close look.


http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61968-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1


A California college student is planning to develop a new electronic voting system based on open-source software created in Australia.

Scott Ritchie was one of dozens of activists who appeared in Sacramento last Thursday before the California secretary of state's Voting Systems Panel to express criticism of e-voting systems currently being used in the United States.

Ritchie, a 19-year-old political science and math student at the University of California at Davis, told the panel that he was launching the nonprofit Open Vote Foundation, which plans to modify the Australian code to meet California election standards and offer it free to any voting vendors that want to implement it in their systems.