[Politech] Open voting consortium demonstrates free election software on 4/1

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Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 23:26:09 PST

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    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.
    
    
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    Joseph Lorenzo Hall,                      SIMS PhD Student; UC Berkeley.
    [web:<http://pobox.com/~joehall/>, blog:<http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb>]
    
    
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