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Democracy is useless without a reliable voting system

An Open Voting Consortium fundraiser was held Friday at the home of District 10 supervisoral candidate Eric Smith.  OVC’s election reform mission is to maximize reliability and confidence in election results by replacing closed propriety voting systems with non-proprietary paper ballot-generating open source systems.

OVC has developed such a system that uses off-the-shelf computer components.  The simplest system would include a computer, a printer and a mouse, but OVC’s system also uses touch screen interfaces.

After a voter has completed the ballot selection process, a paper ballot is printed displaying the voter’s ballot selections.  The ballot is also encoded for electronic reading by a barcode reader which would be responsible for tabulating election results.

“It’s imperative that we have a system that we can count on,” said OVC President Alan Dechert.

Photo: District 10 Candidate Eric Smith, OVC spokesperson Brent Turner, District 6 candidate Debra Walker and OVC President Alan Dechert.