[CAVO] Online voting

[Patrick Masson]

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On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 13:22 -0700, David RR Webber (XML) wrote:
> Larry,
> 
> 
> Seems like great minds think alike -
> http://www.openlogic.com/programs/ppc/open-source-software
> 
> 
> 
> However - for voting software - probably easiest to create a page on
> Wikipedia - and just catalog software available - capabilities -
> license and such - similar to this page:
> 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_XML_editors
>   but for online open source voting packages.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks, David
> 
> 
>         -------- Original Message --------
>         Subject: Re: [CAVO] Online voting
>         From: "Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
>         Date: Fri, October 16, 2015 3:10 pm
>         To: "'CAVO'" <cavo at opensource.org>
>         Cc: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>, 'Jim Jagielski'
>         <jim at jaguNET.com>, 'Alan Dechert' <dechert at gmail.com>
>         
>         
>         Thanks, David. 
>          
>         I still hope for integration and aggregation of a lot of open
>         source election and voting software, just as there is with
>         Linux for our open source operating system. So if there are
>         open source election solutions already in the UK and in
>         Apache, let's integrate and aggregate.  CAVO can do that.
>          
>         Should we set up a WIKI here in which such open source
>         software can be identified?
>          
>         /Larry
>          
>         P.S. I copied Jim Jagielski to this thread. He's one of the
>         best authorities I know for integrating and aggregating open
>         source software. 
>          
>          
>         From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david at drrw.info] 
>         Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 12:00 PM
>         To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com; CAVO <cavo at opensource.org>
>         Cc: 'Jim Jagielski' <jim at jaguNET.com>; 'Alan Dechert'
>         <dechert at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Re: [CAVO] Online voting
>          
>         Larry,
>          
>         For associations and public entity board voting there are
>         already open source solutions available.
>          
>         The most used one is developed by guy in the UK.
>          
>         OASIS-open.org uses it for example.
>          
>         David
>          
>                 -------- Original Message --------
>                 Subject: [CAVO] Online voting
>                 From: "Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
>                 Date: Fri, October 16, 2015 2:37 pm
>                 To: "'CAVO'" <cavo at opensource.org>
>                 Cc: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>, 'Jim
>                 Jagielski'
>                 <jim at jaguNET.com>, 'Alan Dechert' <dechert at gmail.com>
>                 CAVO developers:
>                  
>                 One of the advantages of open source software is that
>                 it is free to be improved by anyone who wants to.
>                  
>                 The San Francisco report (San Francisco Local Agency
>                 Formation Commission entitled "Study on Open Source
>                 Voting Systems") does not support online voting at
>                 this time for reasons relating to security and legal
>                 certification. But there is no reason why an open
>                 source project can't develop online voting tools for
>                 our own uses. 
>                  
>                 For example, the Apache membership votes every year
>                 for a board of directors and for new members. They
>                 already trust email from specific email addresses.
>                 They already trust online voting. They and/or we can
>                 create an open source online voting module for
>                 ourselves regardless of what government agencies are
>                 yet prepared to trust.
>                  
>                 CAVO can support a variety of open source projects.
>                  
>                 /Larry
>                  
>                 P.S. The existing Apache ALv2 license is also
>                 acceptable to government agencies, and it is already
>                 compatible with both GPLv3 and MPLv2 licenses!   :-)
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