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Re:L.A. County gets state approval of new open-source vote-c... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:22PM (#17824027)
If I'm reading the contract correctly[1], the source won't be available until 2020. There's also some limitations put on the licensing that are IMO stretching (or maybe abusing) the definition of open source.

[1] http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/123460.pdf

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Re:L.A. County gets state approval of new open-source vote-c... by stonesixone on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:25PM (#17824045)
They reserve the right to make it open source in that contract, but they may or may not do so.
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Re:L.A. County gets state approval of new open-source vote-c... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:31PM (#17824074)
LA County has the right, and elsewhere they've said that they will (although of course plans change, with some caveats about device firmware and using it for your own elections
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