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  djames 2:05 pm on April 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  I just published my notes from the “electronic voting systems” panel here: http://edemocracycamp.org/schedule/1145-1245/electronic-voting-systems/

   

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  djames 2:04 pm on April 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: eDemCamp (22), voting

  Here are my notes from the “Electronic Voting Systems and Citizen Involvement” panel that happened from 11:45 – 12:45 pm at eDemocracyCamp 2009.

  Big questions about electronic voting
  * record of your vote
  * central authority
  * checks and balances
  * corruption
  * accessibility (digital divide)
  * electronic even feasible?
  * usability of the system

  Federal Election Commission
  * how many investigators?

  Help America Vote Act

  ways of authenticating:
  * something you know
  * something you have
  * something physical about you

  authentication of identity
  * fingerprints
  * one-off usernames for elections

  post-mortem validation

  anonymous voting, value of the secret ballot

  UN overseeing international elections
  proposal: all countries should have election oversight

  Open Source Voting Technology

  The government pays for open source development.

  To secure the code, the hardware, the system. Businesses are driven by money. There needs to be a good incentive to hack the system.

  Examples
  * http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
  * http://www.electionreformproject.org/

  Should government pay for an open source voting project?

  Should government build an open source voting project? How much should they do?

  What is the role of the open source community?

  What is the process by which the federal government goes out to find voting technology?
  * straight to Diebold?
  * how do they define requirements?
  * do they even know what is possible?

  Sounds like a good opportunity for business
  * sell / give away / open source hardware
  * open source software?

  “Brave New Ballot”
  Aviel Rubin
  University of Maryland
  http://www.bravenewballot.org/

  Spain Example:
  1 election -> paper ballots
  Another election -> electronic systems
  US is behind other countries for e-voting

  Examples that the voting project might tie into:
  * http://elgg.com/

  Organic decision-making
  * beyond voting
  * towards increased involvement
  * more engagement

  Organizational Development
  * what do people want?
  * how can you use technology to increase participation of people in decision-making
  * how to gather feedback
  * how to use feedback for public decision
  * political area
  * all aspects, including community
  * integrate new technology to provide useful information for people making decisions
  * how can we engage people?

  Brasíl / Brazil
  * a big discussion in Brazil
  * 15 years of electronic voting
  * Brazilians can vote from home. Is this safe?
  * Avoiding fraud
  * Book about electronic voting – explained how to use the machines efficiently
  * Electoral justice doesn’t teach people to use the electronic voting systems well
  * The Supreme Court -> Court of Electoral Systems
  * In Brazil, voting is compulsory
  * If you don’t vote, you pay a fine
  * So people vote, arguably, for the wrong reasons (in some cases) “people vote with the hand, not the head”
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  “The Dance” – purpose: to make you feel that you participated:
  * get a ballot
  * walk over to the station
  * vote in a booth
  * drop the ballot off

  MicroJustice
  * validate that people have correct documents

  One Laptop Per Child