Re: Let's roll up our sleeves and get dirty.

[Mary Eberle <m.eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Nick, but I suggest that we also need to see what 
happened nationwide. If you agree, please go to

http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/

and sign the petition. You can include a statement about the local and 
state situation as well if you wish.

Mary

Nicholas Bernstein wrote:

> 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