[CAVO] CA DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM- OPEN SOURCE VOTING

[Patrick Masson]

Of course this leaves open the question of what is an "open source"
election system. I would suggest this read, "...Alex Padilla to devote
maximum efforts and resources to create, certify and deploy publicly
owned, election systems distributed with an OSI Approved Open Source
License."

On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 22:23 -0700, Brent Turner wrote:
> RESOLUTION 15-05.69L
> Open Source Election Systems
> 
> WHEREAS, public confidence in the integrity of the election system in
> the United States is declining; and voting machines and the computers
> that add vote totals are being run with computer programs or software
> that can substantially change vote totals in subtle ways that are
> difficult to detect; and
> 
> WHEREAS, we the people have the right to know exactly how votes are
> processed, to have transparent elections, and to have computer
> scientists analyze open source code for malicious code which could be
> used to manipulate elections; and
> 
> WHEREAS, proprietary computer software denies us this right to
> know,inner workings of the computerized vote counting hardware are
> secret; and there are now better methods available under the passage
> of SB-360 that will heighten transparency and increase security while
> reducing costs.
> 
> THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the undersigned California Democratic
> Party calls upon Secretary of State Alex Padilla to devote maximum
> efforts and resources to create, certify and deploy publicly owned,
> open source election systems.
> 
> Author Brent Turner - Sponsored by San Mateo County & Santa Clara
> County DCCC
> 
> 
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