Talk:Open Source Digital Voting Foundation

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[edit] Relationship to OVC

What is the relationship of this group to the Open Voting Consortium? It does not look like there are any.

Do they have different goals, etc? According to both sites, they are working on a simple prototype voting system, OVC is working with a group called Open Voting Solutions.

These two articles are confusing, and I think clarification is necessary.

-- Toshardin (talk) 22:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

Browsing the OSDV site, it is not clear this group has accomplished anything other than submitting paperwork for tax exemption. This is not notable, particularly considering there appears to be a competing organization with similar goals that has accomplished something.

From WP:NOTE:

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-- Toshardin (talk) 22:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)