Ok. BBV Activists: Every search for a problem requires a solution.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I am sitting here with Randi doing a fine job of your aunt getting angry at something, and yes, it is starting to appear(to me) that if she is correct and if Bev is correct and if you guys are correct, then there might be something to this.

But man, I am pretty geekishly inclined and I think you better get down in the weeds of the technological issues.

Without a superior solution you will get no audience. That is a fact. Without a way to show how well this can be done, without these questions arising and tainting our most sacred democratic process, you won't get the play you need.


It can be done. Open Source. An Open Source Organization, formed to create the definative, state-of-the-art, FREE voting software. Also free of taint. Linux or FreeBSD-based would be my choice.

I am too tired, too ragged to go farther on this. Read up on Open Source. Know that Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman and Linux Torvalds are the first people you should reach out to in this quest That Slashdot is your friend here.

I will have more for you if my brain ever works right again.

[theorist]

1. The importance of full transparency is multifacted.

One of the most important to me is quality control. If the source code is out there, the hackers (as is there nature) will tweak it to perfection. Just as all the commons, it would truly belong to us all, even if you don't know how to program.

The most egregious crime against our votes has been the privatization of voting systems. In an ideal situation, we would have nonpartisan oversight of the nonprofit organisations that provide our voting machines.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Exactly.

This must be part of the equation. But with one caveat: The compiled source must be certified at the time of compilation and installation. Period.

This can be done. It just requires the information to move it forward and the will to bring it to fruition.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. http://open-vote.org/

http://open-vote.org/

[Ignoramus]

4. Indian electronic voting system

I saw a thing on the tv about electronic voting in india. They had these small portable voting devices that people would type their votes into. Then to count the votes, the devices are all collected and brought to a central location to be inspected by a committee and the votes are read from the machines and reported soon there after.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yep. We gotta do that

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[BlueEyedSon]

6. I'm all for going back to paper

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Australia uses open source evoting

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61045,00.html