(2009-10-23) Open Source Evoting Code Release

The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) announced the availability of source code for its prototype election system (EVoting) Wednesday night at a panel discussion that included Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); California Secretary of State Debra Bowen; Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan; and Heather Smith, director of Rock the Vote... The OSDV, co-founded by Gregory Miller and JohnSebes, launched its Trust the Vote Project in 2006 and has an eight-year roadmap to produce a comprehensive, publicly owned, open source electronic election system... The voting firmware and tabulator program are built on a minimized LinuxOS platform (a stripped down version of Sharp) and the election management components are built with Ruby On Rails.