Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[tom poe <tompoe AT ableweb.net>]

Hi, Bev Harris:  I sent a request for information to the list of vendors 
on the FEC site, and got an interesting response from aitechnology.com. 
One message from James Mindaneo proudly announces the first voter 
verification system, and the pending patent technology for any voter 
printout methods utilized by DRE's.  The messages are posted as they 
occurred at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/repository.html

When you enter that address, scroll down to mail list, and click.
When you get to the mail list subscription page, click on the archives 
link and view the activity for April.  

I don't know whether this is new info or not, but should shed some light 
on why we need to encourage an Open Source Project to quickly develop 
closed PC-Based systems that can be setup by precincts, county, and 
state officials to provide secure and reassuring voter-friendly DRE's. 
Personally, I suspect this company may be responsible for some of the 
reasons why blackboxvoting.com exists.  :)

The solution is a simple, obvious one, but would take a huge public 
relations campaign to pull it off by the 2004 elections [that's your 
home turf, right?].  The costs would be greatly diminished, just a 
fraction of the millions now being spent, and the Open Source Community 
would provide generous technical support.  We saw a similar and just as 
remarkable project a few years ago with the Human Genome work and the 
Open Source folks at Stanford University.  I suspect that David Dill at: 
ddill AT chicory.stanford.edu ??? would be more than willing to coordinate 
contacts for discussion of such a project.  Hope you can look into this 
matter further.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Open Studios
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/