Fwd: [EM] Open Voting Consortium for e-voting?

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi all,

The open voting consortium was kind enough to respond to some of the  
issues we raised (reposted with permission, edited slightly for  
clarity).

FYI, they do support ranked ballots:

http://gyaku.pair.com/~vote/ballot.html

though I found some minor bugs in the demo version:
> Under County Commissioner:
> - click the '1' bubble for a candidate
> - click the name of a candidate
> (both candidates appear as '1'

They seem open to working with the larger community, so I trust they'll  
get this working, and support Condorcet methods as soon as they become  
legitimate.

-- Ernie P.


From: Arthur Keller <arthur at kellers.org>
Date: April 15, 2004 12:35:11 PM PDT
Subject: [EM] Open Voting Consortium for e-voting?

Re: Your comments at  
<http://www.mail-archive.com/election-methods- 
electorama.com at electorama.com/msg02625.html> and  
<http://www.mail-archive.com/election-methods- 
electorama.com at electorama.com/msg02635.html>

We do plan to count the paper ballots and reconcile them against the  
electronic record from the Electronic Voting Machine.  We consider the  
paper to be the official ballot, not what's in electronic form.

In our demonstration, we show ranked preference voting, which could be  
used to implement Instant Runoff Voting for those jurisdictions that  
allow that.

Try the demo yourself at <http://gyaku.pair.com/~vote/ballot.html>  
(also available from the Open Voting Consortium home page at  
<http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/>.

Please do feel free to repost to the list.  I don't have access to do  
that.

> That's good to hear.   I presume the ballots themselves are only  
> accessible to the jurisdiction.  Is there any way other groups could  
> get access to summaries (e..g, the pairwise matrix) or scrubbed subset  
> of ballots, for research purposes.

Certainly precinct totals should be made available.  We haven't done  
the threat analysis to determine whether or not individual ballots  
should be made available.

Best regards,
Arthur Keller, Ph.D.
VP, Finance and Operations
Open Voting Consortium

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