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Independent testing of voting systems

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Communications of the ACM Volume 47 Issue 10October 2004pp 34–38https://doi.org/10.1145/1022594.1022619

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Communications of the ACM Volume 47, Issue 10
Voting systems
October 2004
95 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1022594
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