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

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:
> 2008/10/7 Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>:
>   
>
> 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.
>   

It looks like they will be doing the same in the 2008[1] election.

> 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.
>   

I come from Canberra, and a waste of a perfectly good sheep paddock
would be how I describe it ;) but as you say it is an ideal place for a
trial.  I think the approach they are following is appropriate when you
are talking about something as fundamental as an election.  What I can't
see is evidence that it is a fundamentally flawed exercise as both Curt
and Stephen have asserted.

Edward

1. http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections/electronicvoting.html