[CAVO] Online voting

Brent Turner turnerbrentm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 19:29:18 UTC 2015


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 BT

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, David.
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> 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.
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> Should we set up a WIKI here in which such open source software can be
> identified?
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> /Larry
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> 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.
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> *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
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> Larry,
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> For associations and public entity board voting there are already open
> source solutions available.
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> The most used one is developed by guy in the UK.
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> OASIS-open.org uses it for example.
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> David
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> -------- 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>
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> CAVO developers:
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> One of the advantages of open source software is that it is free to be
> improved by anyone who wants to.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> CAVO can support a variety of open source projects.
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> /Larry
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> 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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