Last update: 14/07/2020
Universal voting software
Estonia is sharing the software source code the country uses for electronic voting, to enable voters to verify the system. The software runs on top of X-Road, the country’s eGovernment services backbone and records exchange. Other countries could reuse the code, the new head of Estonia’s State Electoral Office tells the Commission’s open source observatory (OSOR). But it won’t be easy. “Nothing prevents others taking the codebase and using it for elections in other countries,” says Arne Koitmäe, head of the Electoral Office. “The system is built to be scalable, and as universal as possible…
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