The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, maintenance, and delivery of open voting systems for use in public elections.

We are currently developing free voting software to run on very inexpensive PC hardware. The OVC voting system will accommodate different languages and scoring methods, as well as voters with special needs.

We expect to be fully operational by 2005, with the certification of version 1.0 of the Open Voting software. Meanwhile, we have demonstration software under development at EVM2003, which should be ready in early 2004.

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What are the components of the demonstration system?
Submitted by Laird Popkin on December 19, 2003 - 10:19pm.

The demo will have a web-based component and several standalone components.

The web-based component will allow anyone with Internet access to get an idea of what the system is like (including being able to print the ballot). It will basically consist of this page Jan set up, but we`ll give it a nice GUI:

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What is the legal status of the OVC?
Submitted by Laird Popkin on December 19, 2003 - 10:07pm.

At the moment, the OVC is an informal group. Very soon (as in days), it will be "A California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation."

Here is a draft of our articles of Incorportation.

http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ad/OVC-articles-draft.pdf

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What is a consortium?
Submitted by Laird Popkin on December 19, 2003 - 10:03pm.

From Merriam Webster online, it says,

Quote: 1: an agreement, combination, or group (as of companies) formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member

That`s pretty much the idea.

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