[Sosfbay-discuss] [GPCA-MediaComm] [Fwd: no GP ballot at a polling place]

[Andrea Dorey]

I asked at Sunday's HC meeting in Palo Alto if anyone noticed the URL  
for tracking your ballot printed on your ballot.  In a group of  
almost 100 people, only 1 man put up his hand!  He had also checked  
on his ballot!  (If you have your voting materials, take a look.  I  
think it's a good idea to check up and keep this bunch on their toes.

BTW, our local voting chief is the most conscientious in the nation:  
she refused to let offending electronic machines be used in Santa  
Clara County, in spite of some intense heat over it!)
Andrea

On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:59 AM, cls at truffula.sj.ca.us wrote:

>
>> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:24:39 -0800
>> From: "Bert" <truekahuna at comcast.net>
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>> To: wrolley at charter.net
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>> Cc: Green Discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>,
>> 	GPCA Media Comm <gpca-mediawg at cagreens.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] [GPCA-MediaComm] [Fwd: no GP ballot  
>> at a
>> polling place]
>
>> Wes,
>
>> You've hit on a perfectly valid argument in favor of touch screens.
>
>> Carrying a little water on this...suppose there were a touch screen
>> system that didn't connect to some game-able network but simply  
>> printed
>> out a ballot "with all the little ovals filled in".  So then the  
>> voter
>> takes that printed ballot, verifies it by eye, and drops it in a box.
>
> That's Open Voting Consortium's system.
>
> Their ballot printer also prints a cryptographic signature
> on the ballot so it can be traced back to the individual
> voting machine.  The format is open so true recounts can
> be performed using independently developed and maintained
> machinery.  Ideally each party or candidate could bring
> its own scanner and do its own recount.  This notion
> of an electronic voting system that does not require
> trustworthy equipment is being called "software independence"
> and I sure wish the "paper trails paper trails paper trails"
> zombies would pick up on it.
>
>
>
>> I wonder if anybody makes something like that. Better yet, let's  
>> form a
>> Green Party company and start making one. Call it our entry into the
>> 10KV of electoral capitalism.
>
> OVC staged a successful demonstration in one of the Dem
> parties' straw polls this year.
>
> http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/blog/2008-jan-14/ 
> open_voting_process_demonstrated_in_san_luis_obispo
>
> One of the hurdles the corporate parties have put up
> is it costs a quarter million dollars to get a voting machine
> federally certified, and the vendor pays.  Trivial
> for Diebold, and it keeps universities and NGOs
> from competing with them.
>
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
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