Making Elections Open and Transparent
May 15, 2008
http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/making-elections-open-and-transparent/
A group of concerned citizens called the Advocacy for Open Systems in
Elections is offering a free, open source solution for automating the
counting of election results. Ito Gruet, a member of the group, was
interviewed by Erwin Oliva of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and the video
of the interview is available on the Inquirer website as "Pushing open
source solutions for elections".
Gruet revealed that the group advocating the use of open standards and
open source software for the automated election system, which would help
ensure the transparency of the electoral process. Gruet explained:
Basically it's to ensure that we are able to track and
trace back to a source document and audit the results
of the elections. And what we are proposing is the we
make this process tranasparent to the public... to all
the voters. Transparent in terms of the technology to
be used, so we should be using open standards. We
believe that the software should be open source so that
people in the know can look at it, can review, and see
if it's really a working system. Transparent in terms
of the data itself, which means that results should be
easily verifiable by the public, and anybody can do
their own tabulation.
Read the entire post at:
http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/making-elections-open-and-transparent/
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