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.

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What will the ballot look like on the screen?
Submitted by Laird Popkin on December 20, 2003 - 12:11am.

This is exactly how the ballot will be displayed in the demonstration.

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Where will the demo take place?
Submitted by Laird Popkin on December 19, 2003 - 10:28pm.

For the web-based component, the answer is "anywhere and everywhere." Hundreds of people have already tried out what we have on the Internet.

The main demo will first take place in Palo Alto California. The exact time and location will be announced around the first of the new year. Depending on the response, we may elect to set up follow-on demos in other cities such

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What are you planning to demonstrate?
Submitted by Laird Popkin on December 19, 2003 - 10:28pm.

In a word, we are demonstrating "Concepts." We are doing this with software we are building, but it`s not really the software we are demonstrating -- it`s just demo software we will be discarding.

Here is a slightly refined version of what Alan Dechert wrote on this in August

WHAT THE DEMO WILL DEMONSTRATE

1. ELECTRONIC VOTING

This may seem a little obvious to people close to this project, but most

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