Re: Re: Write-In Ballots

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:29:13PM -0600, Paul Tiger - LPBC - Outreach wrote:
> Interesting Ivan - this is the first time that I have seen this message from
> you. I'm not clear whom you mean by Linda and Mike.
> 

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> One thing that we can do is to modify the software ourselves. It is not as
> closed as some of the open source advocates have imagined. We own the
> software and the source. The question is if the county is willing to deal
> directly with the systems and ignore threats from Hart concerning
> non-support, which were not getting anyway.
> 
> Paul Tiger
>  

I hope that this is realistic. Certainly there is sufficient talent in BoCo,
some of it currently under-employed. But aren't there issues of getting the
modified software 'validated'? Who is the responsible agent for validating?
I'm not asking this as a way of throwing cold water on this. Just saying
let's get real. And who can look at the software? County employees, I suppose,
but can contractors hired under contract look at it? Can persons who are
interested in bidding on an RFP from the County look at it? What other classes
of people? And, can anyone who can look at it, also run the text of the source
through analysis programs in order to collect statistics on the size of the
problem? I'd be interested in examining this piece of ... .

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Paul E Condon           
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