A day after the Federal elections were over, Belgium government has open-sourced the code used for voting machines. The move is, however not for sharing and reuse, but for showing that the machines were not fraudulent.
The voting machines used custom built Ubuntu Linux at the core. They had no hard disk but only a few bytes of flash memory. For each election, the version of Linux and names of candidates were loaded from a USB device.
The source code has been made available in this website. The government started using Ubuntu Linux for voting machines from October last year.
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