Open Voting Consortium
URL = http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
Description
"The Open Voting Consortium has crafted a comprehensive solution to make U.S. elections open and transparent. OVC's computer scientists have begun programming open source software and developed a working model, but it will take $1.5 million to fund project completion, including certification." (http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/)
Discussion
Why the initiative?
"The election system in the United States can no longer be trusted. Voting machines and the computers that add vote totals are being run with computer programs or software that can change vote totals. Where historic voter fraud required dozens of people colluding, now a small circle of corrupt election officials and voting machine technicians can skew results.
See our Problem page to learn from experts, government reports, and voting and election groups about how our elections have been affected by use of corporately controlled electronic voting machines and how they are plagued by irregularities." (http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/)
More Information
The Verifiable Open Technology Elections (VOTE) approach is a collaborative initiative between voting system vendors, open public standards organizations and public open source development organizations.