Posted by: Jason Bechtel
on June 26, 2005 01:16 PM
[to counter the inane prior top-level comments...] It makes perfect sense to me that this effort comes from the political left. Liberals are for getting as many citizens to vote as possible. Liberals are for empowering the downtrodden. Conservatives, on the other hand, accuse the liberals of all sorts of horrible things while their chosen party works to disenfranchise as many poor and urban voters as possible.[end politics]
I actually can't believe it took this long for Free Software to find its way into politics. It is needed so desperately! We need free and open election software if we are to move to electronic voting (which seems unavoidable). The current serious offerings are all proprietary "blackbox" systems. The guiding principle in voting is supposed to be transparency! "Trust, but verify." The only way we can trust and verify is with open code and open processes at every point in the system.
My thanks to those working on this. I know a couple of local candidates here who could really use something like this.
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Posted by: Jason Bechtel on June 26, 2005 01:16 PMI actually can't believe it took this long for Free Software to find its way into politics. It is needed so desperately! We need free and open election software if we are to move to electronic voting (which seems unavoidable). The current serious offerings are all proprietary "blackbox" systems. The guiding principle in voting is supposed to be transparency! "Trust, but verify." The only way we can trust and verify is with open code and open processes at every point in the system.
My thanks to those working on this. I know a couple of local candidates here who could really use something like this.
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