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Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of what's wrong with e-voting
- PaulDaPigeon 8y agoSecurity is a great reason why all government software should be open source. Trust in a democracy requires trust in the systems in place and open source would be a great way to ensure that trust. There is an open letter for this regarding the EU, it seems like it has little traction though. [1] [1] https://publiccode.eu/ https://publiccode.eu/
- pergadad 8y agoThere's some progress with EU bug bounty programmes and a recent commitment to publish under CC-BY for content. The shift clearly goes that way. But running a large administration with largely non-technical staff on open source can be hard. Paying for Microsoft to provide a full functioning system is in the end cheaper than hiring an army of engineers to choose, adapt and run a system. You could still make a political decision to make this shift anyway and put resources into it, but it's a risky strategy - if things go wrong/too slow you can't just stop lawmaking, statistics, funding programmes, etc for a few months.