[governance] Open Source Voting Software Concept Released

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Can ICANN still further afford to ignore?  Me thinks not for long...

"Wired is reporting that the Open Source Digital
Voting Foundation has announced the first release of http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/open-sourceLinux- and Ruby-based election management software. This software 
should compete in the same realm as Election Systems & Software, as well as
Diebold/Premiere for use by County registrars. Mitch Kapor founder of
Lotus 1-2-3 and Dean Logan, Registrar for Los Angeles County, and Debra
Bowen, California Secretary of State, all took part in a formal
announcement ceremony. The http://osdv.org/aboutOSDV is working with 
multiple jurisdictions, activists, developers and other organizations 
to bring together 'the best and brightest in technology and policy' 
to create 'guidelines and specifications for high assurance digital voting
services.' The announcement was made as part of the OSDV http://www.trustthevote.org/
Trust the Vote project, where open source tools are to be used to create a
certifiable and sustainable open source voting system."


Regards,



Jeffrey A. Williams
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