[License-review] [CAVO] Please circulate

[Richard Fontana]

This was off-topic for license-review and was indirectly my fault. Sorry.

Richard

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 03:09:42PM -0500, Patrick Masson wrote:
> Tweeted to our 8,500 followers and the #opensource community.
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> On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 09:35 -0800, Brent Turner wrote:
> 
>     Dear friends,
> 
>     I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People, a
>     new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your
>     name to mine? If this petition gets 99,999 signatures by December 12, 2015,
>     the White House will review it and respond!
> 
>     We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama
>     Administration to take action on a range of issues. If a petition gets
>     enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response.
> 
>     You can view and sign the petition here:
> 
>     http://wh.gov/iyhz4
> 
>     Here's some more information about this petition:
> 
>     Urge the Election Assistance Commission to quickly review and certify open
>     source voting systems
> 
>     According to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA),
>     most Americans are voting on technology that is old and starting to break
>     down,Election officials are dissatisfied with the voting systems available
>     to purchase. The solution, according to PCEA, is to reform the federal
>     certification process for voting systems to facilitate adoption of software
>     solutions that can run on off-the-shelf technology.Though New Hampshire
>     recently adopted open source voting, California Association of Voting
>     Officials ( CAVO ) states the open source voting progress is not happening
>     fast enough. We the undersigned ask the White House to urge the Election
>     Assistance Commission (EAC) to promptly review and certify, at no cost, a
>     General Public License ( GPL) license open source voting system
> 
> 
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