Having said that, I think there is a more general point to be made from bringing up electronic voting in the discussion of open source + government funded softw

Having said that, I think there is a more general point to be made from bringing up electronic voting in the discussion of open source + government funded software development. Licensed products are an inevitable loophole to be exploited unless we stipulate rules for use-cases like this. Inevitable because some products will always be licensed, and mandating that everything the government uses must be open source is... well, actually, that sounds great, but even if such a policy were implemented that would be a slow, tough transition to make.