[LINK] Electronic voting in ACT

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 14:00 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> http://www.softimp.com.au/evacs/index.html

I am reasonably sure that the original EVACS was written at least
partly by Andrew Tridgell. Which means that it is (was?) probably
unbreakable, unsinkable and uncrackable, regardless of operating system
or development language. If it can be powered and programmed, Tridge
can make it work.

However, while the original EVACS was partly or fully open source, the
people Tridge partnered with (Software Improvements) to create it were
not so altruistic; IIRC they redeveloped the software into an entirely
proprietary system, which they also called "EVACS".

Whether they did actually redevelop it or whether they just said they
did so they could close it and start selling GPLed code is a matter for
conjecture.

Proprietary voting systems are by definition not trustworthy.

Regards, K.

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