election software

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 07:40 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> Hey, all-
> 
> recently saw this: http://nigelj.livejournal.com/10507.html Can't
> comment directly because I don't have an LJ account.
> 
> Elections are fairly serious, important business- much less so in a
> community where elected representatives are the deciders of last
> resort instead of first resort, but still. So I'd strongly recommend
> using someone else's code that has been tested and reviewed for
> security and correctness rather than writing your own. Two open
> options are:
> 
> http://www.heliosvoting.org/
  ^^^
Anyone know what's the purpose of the Google API stuff in this code?
(Not necessarily a question just for Luis, but for anyone knowledgeable
looking at the code.)

> http://selectricity.org/
  ^^^
I looked around for a bit and couldn't find the source code for the
webapp part, but this is based on http://rubyvote.rubyforge.org/ ,
correct?

> I realize Fedora has some unusual needs, and I appreciate the effort
> Nigel has put in on this, but Fedora should strongly consider not
> reinventing this particular wheel. Focus on the deliberative part of
> what Nigel is working on (question tool, etc.) and leave the voting
> part to those who have already worked on the problem extensively.

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