I am really surprised that I am not hearing more people talk about open source voting software. Clearly its a much more effective system that what we have now. Clearly we are going to need an organization to help overcome the lobbyist power of the voting machine companies. I know of one (http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/) that has had a few successes in legislature including a law in California which requires voter-verifiable paper ballots to be printed. They do seem to be desparately low on funding though...maybe some/.'ers could help out? Does anybody know of another organization that is promoting something similar?
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I am really surprised that I am not hearing more people talk about open source voting software. Clearly its a much more effective system that what we have now. Clearly we are going to need an organization to help overcome the lobbyist power of the voting machine companies. I know of one (http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/) that has had a few successes in legislature including a law in California which requires voter-verifiable paper ballots to be printed. They do seem to be desparately low on funding though...maybe some /.'ers could help out? Does anybody know of another organization that is promoting something similar?