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Name :   David Mertz, et al.
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/27/2005

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Glossary Term :  Open Voting System
Definition :  
Comment :  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 entirely on COTS devices.
See also Free Software, COTS.
Association: Security, Standardization, Software Engineering
Source: OVC

Explanation: This term is in wide use since Irwin Mann's paper at http://archive.cpsr.net/conferences/cfp93/mann.html.