I would love to see an open design, open source, development of a voting infrastructure. I know security nut geeks would flock to this idea. I’m almost surprised I have heard no one advocating this. Why the hell not?
If that wouldn’t lay to rest concerns about election machinery going around on the net, I don’t know what would.
Further, that would be a major boon for the open source movement.
Maybe it’s the anti-authoritarian [anti-establishment?] stripe behind open source. Hmmm.
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check out the discussion on slashdot.
Thanks, it’s an interesting, and somewhat related link. =)
I think there already is one.
Not in the US, of course. I think Australia?
You are, as usual, correct. Further, google turned up others who had already started efforts for advocacy of open source voting technology, but none of them appear to have acquired steam. This baffles me.
Are you still clinging to your naive notions of government going with what’s sensible?!
aaahhh nah you dont need none of that.. the next four years I know whose going to be the next US President…!
I’m just glad that my election 2004 predictions didn’t come true.
In short they were
1) Some foreign government hacks US voting machines adding millions of votes for their favorite candidate (presumably France and Germany would hack for Kerry, while Putin’s former Kgb cronies might hack for Bush)
2) This is discovered 1-2 weeks after the election
3) The results are discounted, Bush stays in office under some sort of emergency provision until all districts can switch to non-electronic voting machines.
I guess I took that episode of the Daily Show where the SAIC contractors who hacked the State of Maryland’s test voting system were interviewed a little too seriously.