says the San Jose Mercury News in an April 8, 2004 editorial.
"Open Voting Consortium appears to have what it takes to inspire faith in electronic voting."
The consortium is a non-profit group of software engineers and computer scientists who have built a prototype voting system with open-source
software, and voter-verifiable printed ballots. The consortium helped draft legislation here in California that will get us a voter-verified paper record of the vote by 2006.
Check out their website. They have a ballot demo, a very educational FAQs, and lots of technical information in the "software" and Wiki sections.
http://openvotingconsortium.org/news.html
Plus, they also have a page with a placeholder for an upcoming Nov. 12 press release, with this explanation: "In essence, the press release will say: "Over the last 4 years, the U.S. failed to correct its faulty voting system. Let's make sure we get it done this time. There is a growing consensus that we need voting machines that produce a paper ballot and use open source software. OVC is leading the charge."
Hurrah! I've got a donation check already made out myself.
If the hardboiled Merc editorial board says these guys are "the real deal," that's good enough for me.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/8383100.htm