Sure bro post it on the list On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I thought I'd let everybody know that I'm currently at the Oxford Internet > Institute for a 6-week research fellowship on election reforms (automated > or otherwise). I'm coming back to Manila June 4 and would be glad to share > the results of my research, after I've written it all up, with any > interested individual or group. > > Regards to all, > > Obet Verzola > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 00:57:32 +0800 (PHT) > To: [email protected] > Subject: [plug] Making Elections Open and Transparent > > > 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/ > -- > Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to > do what we ought. -- Pope John Paul II > > --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alternative Information and Opinion at http://www.phnix.net > Advocacy blog: http://mamador.wordpress.com > Personal website: http://mannyamador.multiply.com > --[Pro-Life Philippines]-------------------[http://www.prolife.org.ph]-- > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft(R) Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- ...
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