Revolution for Voting

[Varen Swaab]

Zac

That's a wonderful idea. I don't  have much skill to help out right now 
(except possibly interface design) but the prospect of electronic 
voting in this age of stolen elections and overtly dishonest 
governments makes your idea very appealing.

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Varen Swaab
Kirkland, Washington


On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Zac Elston wrote:

> Just thought I'd toss this out since it's been eating at me forever and
> I never have time to really get into it.
>
> In case you haven't noticed there is a big mess in touch screen voting.
>    A few enterprising individuals have created open source voting
> systems which are workable but need backing for the support
> infrastructure.  That seems to be the big hurdle no matter what.
>
> I happen to write/furnish a lot of touch screen tools in Revolution for
> doctors and government stuff so I've been interested in how these
> systems work and have a lot of experience with touch systems.
>
> My city had a few such commercial voting products (Diebold) last
> november when I voted.  I stared with astonishment at the simplicity of
> them.  It would take a few hours to write the same thing in Revolution
> (well the interface/storage anyway) and allow the source code to be 
> open
> as well.
>
> I think this would be a great way to promote Revolution as a stable
> system able to manage a very serious task.  Anyone interested as an
> academic exercise in assisting (need to print to a variety of simple
> tape printers)?
> -zac
>
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