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one of my students says that back at his home in india they have e-voting 
with the software burned on to the chips so there are no mods and so its 
all auditable. there's more and i'll have to ask him, but his claim is 
that there are no lost votes even in remote regions and that all the 
parties in india agree only that the voting process (via machine) is fair.


On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Simon Spero wrote:

+On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Scott Lundgren wrote:
+> On Dec 08, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
+> 
+> > Well, I finally ran into a customer who won't buy without the source code
+> > being in escrow.  Has anyone used such a service?
+
+I got your source code escrow right here: jad and gdb.   Actually from bitter
+experience, I wouldn't  want to use any mission critical software were source
+code might suddenly not be available.
+
+> Well I guess we can safely rule out the NC Board of Elections as  Michael's
+> customer...
+
+Good.  BOEs do nothing but attract crime and ruin neighborhoods.  Ok, maybe
+it's just Durham.
+
+Actually, with all the open-source millionaires living in the triangle area,
+I'm surprised that no-one's set up a foundation to build a fully open
+electronic voting system.
+
+ A stripped down linux kernel to boot things up; a java virtual machine to 
run
+the application; USB smart-keys  to id the voters...  a thousand  lean and
+hungry cryptokids  staying up weeks at time reviewing it, desperate for the
+chance to show how much smarter they are than the other 999.
+
+"This time it would work and no-one would have to get nailed to anything. "
+
+Simon
+p.s.
+   For a  real challenge what about  an open-source lottery management 
system.

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