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.

If you want to help make it happen, then send us email.

Visitors should feel free to create an account, submit a story, or join in the many discussions by posting comments. Members can also subscribe to a daily email newsletter of updated site content.

For more information about us, consult our FAQ.

This site is in its infancy, so be sure to check back often to see what's new.

Planned Site Relaunch
Submitted by Laird Popkin on January 14, 2004 - 10:04pm.
Start:
February 1, 2004 - 12:00pm

This is the target date for relaunching the OVC web site. It'll have all sorts of great new features and information, such as: - Frequently Asked Questions - Discussions - And much, much more!

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Alan Dechert's talk at UC Santa Cruz forum on electronic voting
Submitted by Laird Popkin on January 14, 2004 - 8:47pm.

this is Alan Dechert's talk given at the UC Santa Cruz forum on electronic voting held October 26th, 2003

Good afternoon. I thank all of you for coming. I am glad to be here. Thanks also to Bob Kibrick and Arthur Keller for their work in organizing this forum. I also want to say thank you to all the others at UC Santa Cruz that helped make this possible, and to all the other forum speakers.

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EVM2003
Submitted by Laird Popkin on January 14, 2004 - 7:37pm.

EVM2003 is an all-volunteer open source voting software project involving engineers, scientists, political scientists and attorneys from around the U.S. and the World.

The purpose of the project is to produce a demonstration version of our open source voting software. The Open Voting Consortium will be the custodian of the free software -- both the demo software and the production software that will be developed and certified for use in public elections.

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