Why open source for voting systems?

Alan Dechert from Open Voting Consortium speaking at the recent Red Hat users conference in California.

John Edwards Supports "Open Source" for Voting Systems

John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to support "open source code" for election systems. In a letter dated June 21st addressed to Alan Dechert, the Edwards campaign stated that, "To ensure security, these machines should be programmed with an open source code for complete transparency, and election results should be safeguarded by voter-verified paper records."

We wholehearted agree!

Full text of announcement - http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/blog/2007-jun-27/john_edwards_supports_open_source_for_voting_systems