Australia posts their software on the Internet (Score 1)

So, if all electronic voting systems were required to use Open Source software, the voters' right to vote would be returned. The U.S. would have electronic voting systems that enabled public scrutiny, and the ability to detect all but the most sophisticated undetectable manipulation of the vote count. Such a requirement would send those who might want to control our elections back to the drawing board. But, knowing that, one has to wonder why we chose to ignore the Australian approach, and instead, put a system in place that guarantees crude but undetectable manipulation of the vote count will be almost automatic. Not to mention the obscene costs to taxpayers to purchase proprietary voting machines.