EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Alan Dechert
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Open Voting System
Definition : |
Comment : | I would like to add two terms, especially, to the voting terms glossary. You may receive other requests/comments from Open Voting Consortium or Open Voting Consortium members regarding the glossary, but these are the most essential ones in my view. Also, we need a definition for OPEN VOTING SYSTEMS. For this, we have summarized and revised the description given by Professor Irwin Mann (NYU) in 1993. http://archive.cpsr.net/conferences/cfp93/mann.html Here's how I would like these to read: OPEN VOTING SYSTEM: A Voting System in which every component is available to the general public under non-restrictive licensing terms or is in the public domain. For hardware components an Open Voting System relies on COTS devices.See also Free Software, COTS. Association: Security, standardization, Software Engineering Source: OVC