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Idea #9484: Summit concerning E and I voting and FLOSS



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Written by Primož Papič the 4 Jun 08 at 15:51. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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CANONICAL and all other sponsors of GNU/Linux and FLOSS should have an summit concerning the future of Electronic and Internet voting. There they should devise a plan how to provide the best solution for bot types of voting.
Some countries already implemented at least one of this type of voting. But software and hardware varies from country to countries.
I know that in Slovenia, there is a lot of talking that this software should be FLOSS or at least open. But other countries mainly USA has a different view how this should be done. I remember that I heard at lecture about e-governance that one of states implemented this rather badly. The Governor of that state gave concession for e-voting to company of his relative or something like that. And there are a lot of videos on internet that are revealing problems with e-voting process. Anybody remembers Florida 2000??
Anyway I will add more information as soon I will have more time, as I must translate all documentation that I have from Slovenian to English.
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steve196 wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 21:21
Voting should be hand counted paper ballots.
Anyone can see the box is initially empty
Anyone can see envelopes thrown in the box
Anyone can see, how the box is opened and the content counted and anyone can verify if the count is right.

Nothing else is anywhere near as safe from large scale tampering as paper ballots hand counted in public at the polling place.

Let us not motivate politicians to go away from that by perfecting more manipulable methods..


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