RFI: Open E-Voting Systems

this has attracted some hostile commment, but mostly from people who are have some inkling of how computers work, so the public are not very exercised by it.

to be honest, if you look at this issue in any way seriously, paper ballot papers are obviously the way to go when you are running elections.

Heck by keeping things decentralized like that the very nature of this project would be slightly subversive isn'it?

It would also be the way to go for an e-jurisprudence

Mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks are technologies that would easily and inexpensively permit to hold referendums on issues concerning everyone, back toward a true "face to face" democracy.

You could try to network with people at http://www.smartmobs.com/index.html

(digression: daydreaming of those possibilities, I'm thinking a network of coops could post their offers and demands as dynamic content on a website, members reading it in the morning or on the go could work at a different place, doing different tasks every day.
psychogeography = a theoritical approach full of potential to explore these new grounds.
heh... flash mobbing as coordinated work crews vs " communism made possible by IT" why not?
Better means communication = ppl relate to other's struggle and feel solidarity when breakthrough are making the life of their virtual co-workers easyer: it makes the pie bigger for everyone and diminish the pain! joy!

I'll try to find something a bit more concrete on "Open E-Voting Systems" asap

if the overlords are forcing through e-voting inevitably you can bet they will also force it through in a rubbish manner, so no control of the process for people pranks for you.

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NTK subscriber JASON KITCAT has been hacking away on
electronic voting systems long before they became
unfashionable. And by "hack" here, we mean, mostly, the
exact opposite: carefully investigating a secure, reliable,
open source system that might actually work, rather than the
hodge-podge of bad security and whizz-nag touchscreens that
dominate the commercial offerings. These days, as the rush
to introduce voting machines overtakes the slow pace of
getting them right, Jason's joined with cyberrights groups
across Europe to try and at least slow down the acceptance
of these sub-standard Diebold-style cheat-o-matics. Right
now, the EU's position has been (to use the rhetorical form
pioneered by Kitcat's choccie namesake) "you can't verify
your vote, you can't authenticate your privacy, you look
awful - you'll go a long way". Kitcat's resolution to
encourage voter-verifiable audit trails in European voting
machines might help stop that. You can sign it at the URL
below, and follow in the illustrious footsteps of MPs,
ukcrypto wonks and some bearded Free Software guy whose name
escapes us.
http://www.free-project.org/resolution/
- ah but how can we *prove* he signed it?

how mad am i?

In america I guess this could tie in with that RFID passport thingie too.

Although from the BBC article.
An ordinary voter could alter the outcome of an election, he believes.

surely that is the point of an election.

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