To whom it may concern,
E-voting poses a threat to our democracy. This is my conclusion after 5 months of research into the topic for my undergraduate thesis. My results are available online at
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~afrodite/E-Voting/
I hope to mount a campaign over the next few months with the following goals: - to prevent the use of the Nedap/Powervote system in Irish elections, - to prevent the purchase of any more equipment or software from Nedap/Powervote by the Irish government, and - to ensure that any electronic voting system introduced in Ireland meets the following criteria - a booth is used, analagous to the traditional polling booth, - all development uses formal methods, - votes are printed on a paper ballot to be verified by the voter, - all source code is publicly available.
If you would be interested in getting involved in such a campaign, or have any advice/comments, please contact me at
Margaret.McGaley@Redbrick.DCU.IE
or join (or mail) the mailing list
e-voting@lists.stdlib.net
by going to
http://lists.stdlib.net/mailman/listinfo/e-voting
Please forward this mail to anyone you think may be interested.
Thanks, Margaret McGaley
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This is another high profile campaign (apart from the patents campaign) that I believe the Free Software movement (should we use Free Software or Software Libre?) has to address. I volunteer to write a draft white paper on this matter from the point of view of Software Libre as I am familiar with both camps. Any objections? - -- Thanks, Aidan Delaney - -- If anyone has both the right and the need to study the code and be assured of its correct functioning, it is users. -- Whitfield Diffie Checksums of bad data tell you only: "yup, that's exactly the same bad data the other guy has" -- Tom Lord
gpg key: http://minds.cs.may.ie/~balor/public_key.asc
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:58:29AM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
This is another high profile campaign (apart from the patents campaign) that I believe the Free Software movement (should we use Free Software or Software Libre?) has to address. I volunteer to write a draft white paper on this matter from the point of view of Software Libre as I am familiar with both camps. Any objections?
No objections here, I'm just glad someone has the time to do this.
Would you like to make it some kind of FSFE-ie Positional Paper?
I know there is no defined FSFE-ie but gathered people could sign it, make themselves available to defend it, or help out by reviewing it once you're done.
The only thing I'd like to mention is that for Free Software to be most useful, there has to be a way to verify that the software they show us is the same as the software they run on the machines. (If they stick code up on the net and GPL it, how do I know that that is the code the machines are running?) This requires that all compilation scripts, base data, and every line of code is available for testing. It is probable that the software will only run on special e-voting machines but the oppertunity to do proper testing should still exist for groups that have/buy said machines.
(Maybe this point is well known to involved people but I rarely see it get a mention.)
anyway, the important thing was the Positional Paper idea(?)
ciaran.
Quoting Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@member.fsf.org:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:58:29AM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
This is another high profile campaign (apart from the patents campaign)
that I
believe the Free Software movement (should we use Free Software or Software
Libre?) has to address. I volunteer to write a draft white paper on this
matter from the point of view of Software Libre as I am familiar with both
camps. Any objections?
No objections here, I'm just glad someone has the time to do this.
Would you like to make it some kind of FSFE-ie Positional Paper?
I know there is no defined FSFE-ie but gathered people could sign it, make themselves available to defend it, or help out by reviewing it once you're done.
The only thing I'd like to mention is that for Free Software to be most useful, there has to be a way to verify that the software they show us is the same as the software they run on the machines. (If they stick code up on the net and GPL it, how do I know that that is the code the machines are running?) This requires that all compilation scripts, base data, and every line of code is available for testing. It is probable that the software will only run on special e-voting machines but the oppertunity to do proper testing should still exist for groups that have/buy said machines.
(Maybe this point is well known to involved people but I rarely see it get a mention.)
anyway, the important thing was the Positional Paper idea(?)
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