Name :   David Mertz, et al. Organization :   N/A Post Date :   9/27/2005 Glossary Comments Glossary Term :   Open Voting System Definition :   Comment :   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 entirely on COTS devices. See also Free Software, COTS. Association: Security, Standardization, Software Engineering Source: OVC Explanation: This term is in wide use since Irwin Mann's paper at http://archive.cpsr.net/conferences/cfp93/mann.html.