Tuesday morning, as millions of Americans lined up at their polling places to participate in the often quite literally broken democratic process, a new Twitter account tweeted a link to a short manifesto: “today’s voting machines are often insecure, not particularly easy-to-use, and so expensive that they’re often used much longer than they were designed for and election officials are forced to hunt for replacement parts on eBay. The market has failed us.”. The announcement, from a new nonprofit called VotingWorks, ended with a promise to build a “secure, affordable, open-source voting machine” from the ground up. The letter wasn’t signed, but it’s the work of Ben Adida, a software developer who has studied voting machines for more than 20 years and had a PhD from MIT in secure voting. The link for this article located at Motherboard is no longer available. . A recent initiative, VoteTech, seeks to develop an innovative, cost-effective open-source electoral platform to supplant aging voting systems.. Open Source Voting Machines, Secure Voting Systems, Election Technology. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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