On 16/10/20 12:24 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:
... can't find much information on the machines or how it's done ...
The EVACS system was originally developed through the Canberra company Software Improvements by people connected to computer science at ANU. It originally used Debian linux: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~rpg/EVoting/evote_revacs.html
Standard government computers were used, mounted in a cardboard polling booth, with a hole cut out for the screen. The same physical arrangement is still used, but I don't know what sort of computer is underneath now.
I have used the electronic system to vote in ACT elections since 2001. My notes on this and other e-voting systems: https://blog.tomw.net.au/search/label/electronic%20voting
There are also research papers on the security and design of the eVacs system:
Boughton, C. (2006). Maintaining democratic values in e-voting with eVACS®. In Electronic Voting 2006–2nd International Workshop, Co-organized by Council of Europe, ESF TED, IFIP WG 8.6 and E-Voting. CC. Gesellschaft für Informatik eV. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/29161
Das, A., Niu, Y., & Stegers, T. (2005). Security Analysis of the eVACS Open-Source Voting System. online], http://wwwcsif. cs. ucdavis. edu/% 7Esteqers/eVACS-final-report. pdf,[09/06/2008].
"Electronic Voting in the 2001 ACT Election", Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Research Note 46, 2002. https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22library/prspub/7MS66%22
Jones, M. Investigating the Software Engineering Process for Electronic Voting Systems. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.497.8133&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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