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Name :   Alan Dechert
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Post Date :   9/27/2005

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Glossary Term :  Open Voting System
Definition :  
Comment :  I would like to add two terms, especially, to the voting terms glossary.
You may receive other requests/comments from Open Voting Consortium or Open Voting Consortium members regarding the glossary, but these are the most essential ones in my view.

Also, we need a definition for OPEN VOTING SYSTEMS. For this, we have summarized and revised the description given by Professor Irwin Mann (NYU) in 1993. http://archive.cpsr.net/conferences/cfp93/mann.html  

Here's how I would like these to read:

OPEN VOTING SYSTEM: A Voting System in which every component is available to the general public under non-restrictive licensing terms or is in the public domain. For hardware components an Open Voting System relies on COTS devices.See also Free Software, COTS.  

Association: Security, standardization, Software Engineering Source: OVC