Re: [tlug] Re: Somewhat OT- open source software for US voting machines

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

2008/10/7 Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>:
> Jim Breen wrote:
>> Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Two candidates were separated by only three or four votes, said Phillip
>>> Green, electoral commissioner for the territory. After recounting,
>>> officials discovered that out of 80,000 ballots, they had made about 100
>>> mistakes. They decided to investigate other voting methods."
>>>
>>
>> And having done a proof-of-concept with nice open-source software, I
>> think they've gone back to paper ballots.
>
> I don't know, this seems to suggest otherwise[1].
>
> 1. http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/labels/electronic%20voting.html

I was wrong to say "gone back" because it never went past a trial.

The ACT electoral commission had a second trial in their 2004 election,
with 13% voting using modified systems. In the 2007 federal election the
federal electoral commission tried a similar system with a few hundred
serving troops in Iraq, etc.

All this is toe-in-the-water stuff. The ACT is a sophisticated place full of
well-educated highly-paid civil servants. It's the ideal place for a trial.
We are are VERY long way from adopting electronic voting on a larger state
or national level.

Jim

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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/