Should proprietary IT get our vote?
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| My preference is for government to fund a number of universities to develop
| an open-source application, with perhaps some of the universities
| collaborating to develop it and the others to test it. The job of loading the
| application onto a suitable device and then delivering the systems to voting
| stations can be put out to tender. If the software is developed under the GPL
| then anyone in the world would be free to use it.
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http://www.whatpc.co.uk/itweek/comment/2193238/should-proprietary-vote
Related:
UK government launches open source CO2 calculatorUK government launches open
source [GPL] CO2 calculator
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| Back in March the UK’s Conservative Party vowed to encourage the adoption
| of open source adoption if elected at the next General Election.*
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| Today the Labour Party did its bit by releasing the code behind its new
| carbon footprint calculator under the general public license.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/06/uk_government_l.html
Findings of the Open Rights Group Election Observation Mission in Scotland and
England
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| The Open Rights Group cannot express confidence in the results for
| areas observed.
|
| The Open Rights Group (ORG) believes that the problems observed at the
| English and Scottish elections in May 2007 raise serious concerns
| regarding the suitability of e-voting and e-counting technologies for
| statutory elections. E-voting is a ‘black box system’, where the
| mechanisms for recording and tabulating the vote are hidden from the
| voter. This makes public scrutiny impossible, and leaves statutory
| elections open to error and fraud.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/e-voting-main/
John Edwards supports "open source" for voting systems
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| John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to support
| "open source code" for election systems.
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http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2662
France to chose president with help of electronic voting
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| "Technology should only be introduced in elections if there is
| transparency, accountability and public confidence," said Mitchell,
| whose organization has monitored thousands of elections around the
| world. "Technology must enhance democratic principles, not inhibit
| them."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/business/evote.php
Microsoft does its usual lobbying and political manipulation...
Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature
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| Microsoft’s proposed change to state law would effectively render
| our current requirements for escrow and the ability for independent
| review of source code in the event of disputes completely meaningless
| - and with it the protections the public fought so hard for.
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http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
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