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Why use an open source e-voting system?

Published:27 June 2005Publication History

ABSTRACT

All voting systems, electronic or manual, are prone to flaws. Which is best, open or closed e-voting?

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          ITiCSE '05: Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
          June 2005
          440 pages
          ISBN:1595930248
          DOI:10.1145/1067445

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