Editing Electronic voting (section)

===Transparency===
It has been alleged by groups such as the UK-based [[Open Rights Group]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/06/20/org-election-report-highlights-problems-with-voting-technology-used/ |title=ORG Election Report highlights problems with voting technology used |publisher=Openrightsgroup.org |access-date=24 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224024126/http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/06/20/org-election-report-highlights-problems-with-voting-technology-used/ |archive-date=24 February 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/07/02/org-verdict-on-london-elections-insufficient-evidence-to-declare-confidence-in-results/|title=Open Rights Group - ORG verdict on London Elections: "Insufficient evidence" to declare confidence in results|work=Open Rights Group|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422003623/http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/07/02/org-verdict-on-london-elections-insufficient-evidence-to-declare-confidence-in-results/|archive-date=22 April 2009|access-date=2 July 2008}}</ref> that a lack of testing, inadequate audit procedures, and insufficient attention given to system or process design with electronic voting leaves "elections open to error and [[electoral fraud|fraud]]".

In 2009, the [[Federal Constitutional Court of Germany]] found that when using voting machines the "verification of the result must be possible by the citizen reliably and without any specialist knowledge of the subject." The [[DRE voting machine|DRE]] Nedap-computers used till then did not fulfill that requirement. The decision did not ban electronic voting as such, but requires all essential steps in elections to be subject to public examinability.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rs20090303_2bvc000307en.html |title=Ruling of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, 3 March 2009 |publisher=Bundesverfassungsgericht.de |access-date=24 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711062054/http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rs20090303_2bvc000307en.html |archive-date=11 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bvg09-019en.html |title=German Federal Constitutional Court, Press release no. 19/2009 of 3 March 2009 |publisher=Bundesverfassungsgericht.de |access-date=24 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404111620/http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bvg09-019en.html |archive-date=4 April 2009 }}</ref>

In 2013, The [[California Association of Voting Officials]] was formed to maintain efforts toward publicly owned General Public License open source voting systems