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The article discusses the application of open-source technology to electronic voting systems. It is said Open Voting Consortium proposed the use of open-source software due to concerns regarding electronic voting systems, such as that the machines used were buggy, easily subverted and difficult to audit accurately. OVC's system allows voters to choose candidates on a touch screen and print a ballot showing bar-code forms of the selected candidates, which will then be hand-scanned with a bar-code reader. However, according to Notable Software's Rebecca Mercury, the OVC system has its disadvantages, such as that the system is no more secure that electronically scanning paper ballots and that machines may not work properly in poorer precincts.