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Originally Posted by Pragma
No, the voting software wouldn't be able to be its own operating system. You'd really be better off just taking an existing operating system (Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X) and then developing your voting application for that. Given the hierarchical nature of the whole voting scheme, Windows would be the easiest one to use, as you'd use Active Directory to set up all of the permissions for the machines.
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well they actually could write their own basic operating system and run it on embedded processors. Remove all the extra functionality that comes with typical OS's these days and you will greatly increase the security and stability of the OS. Personally i'd prefer voting machines to voting computers. A voting machine that had it's own open source basic OS that was designed for voting and functionality needed with voting only would be the most secure way to do this in my opinion.