Let's roll up our sleeves and get dirty.

[Nicholas Bernstein <nicholas.bernstein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While we're busy casting blame and licking wounds, let's start focusing 
on a solution.

Over the course of the last year I suggested that we need to take 
matters into our own hands and start defining the system we want. 
Wisely, Joe suggested that we didn't have enough time before this 
election to do it.

Well, right now we have 3 years, 11 months, and 20 days.

I'd suggest we start back at the beginning: what do we want? What is out 
there? Are people working on an open source solution on Sourceforge (or 
elsewhere)? CU uses online elections to elect student representative. 
Who wrote the code? What are the bugs? How would it have to be changed 
to be implimented on a wide scale. I think we need to think big here: 
one nation, one voting system. I realize that each district can buy the 
systems they want, but since most of them will have to buy new equipment 
in 2006 to comply with the new standards (if they ever come out) we 
should look for broad support for a grassroots, opensource solution.

Perhaps this is an agenda for a working meeting?

Nick


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