In elections in the Philippines used cars for voting on the basis of Ubuntu Linux

At the general elections held yesterday members of parliament and the president of the Philippines used the new electronic voting system for the storage and counting of votes which was involved a group of machines running Ubuntu Linux.

Unfortunately in the new automated system of counting votes has not been without major mistakes and failures, resulting in one of which is one of the presidential candidates failed to vote because of malfunction of a voting machine. The reason for failure was not connected with Ubuntu Linux and related to the machines to read information from the forms.

11 May 2010

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