Wisconsin Requires Open Source, Verifiable Voting
02:49, 5 January 2006
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Covered on Slashdot, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed legislation that "will require the software of touch-screen voting machines used in elections to be open-source. Municipalities that use electronic voting machines are responsible for providing to the public, on request, the code used." Madison's Capital Times reports "the bill requires that if a municipality uses an electronic voting system that consists of a voting machine, the machine must generate a complete paper ballot showing all votes cast by each elector that is visually verifiable by the elector before he or she leaves the machine." More info here and here
