-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Open Voting Consortium to Demonstrate Free Election Software Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:13:42 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@private> Reply-To: joehall@private To: Dave Farber <dave@private>, Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Monday, March 22, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts Alan Dechert 916-791-0456 Jan Krrman +46 18 509 507 (Sweden, 10a-1p Pac.) Arthur Keller 650-424-0202 Fred McLain 206-679-2198 (Washington) Doug Jones 319-335-0740 (Iowa) David Mertz 413-863-4552 (Massachusetts) Laird Popkin 917-453-0700 (New York) all can be reached via email: firstname@private GRANITE BAY, CALIFORNIA The Open Voting Consortium will demonstrate a version of its free election software on the 1st of April at 10:00 AM in the Santa Clara County government office building, 70 W. Hedding St., room 157, San Jose. The Open Voting Consortium intends to make free voting software available for use in public elections to begin a process founders hope will transform the voting system from a fraud-prone, blackbox, proprietary, expensive, idiosyncratic, unreliable system to a technically sound, accurate, secure, inexpensive, uniform and open voting system. An international team of volunteer scientists and engineers developed the demonstration system. Jan Krrman of Sweden, a senior research engineer at Uppsala University says that the role of the U.S. internationally makes it important, outside the U.S. as well, that fair elections are being held there." John-Paul Gignac of Canada wrote the software for the graphical user interface. Anand Pillai of Bangalore India, Eron Lloyd of Pennsylvania, and Dr. David Mertz of Massachusetts have been the other main software code contributors. Fred McLain, a noted computer security expert from Washington, has served as the lead developer over the past two months. I am very pleased with the outstanding contributions of this world wide group of contributers. In a short period of time they have created a ballot system with a paper trail, an outstanding verification system and allow for vision impaired users as well, McLain stated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph Lorenzo Hall, SIMS PhD Student; UC Berkeley. [web:<http://pobox.com/~joehall/>, blog:<http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb>] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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