Our company is one of the proponent of this, I will post the Open Election System (OES) white paper URL once I've uploaded the file.
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I will announce it here. Regards to all, > > Obet Verzola > > > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Gabriel H. Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:17:40 +0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [plug] Making Elections Open and Transparent > > > I am very interested to know of your research. Please let me know when you > are ready to share your findings. Thank you. > > Gabriel Mercado > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:56 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 > > > > > > -- > http://kikay.exchange.ph > http://mom.exchange.ph > http://basketball.exchange.ph > ======================= > Make life easier for Webmasters! > http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=user/register&r=137994 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and application > hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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