an idea

[Elliott]

Hi, I am new to the forum and this is my first post. I am rather politically minded and a bit of a skeptic. I have been thinking about the upcoming presidential election, and the method in which America votes. Paper ballots can be confusing, computer voting machines made by Diebold are not open source and for that reason could be biased towards a particular constituency because of a lack of outsider review. So here is my idealistic and probably stupid challenge:

Create an open source political voting system that has integrity.

For the time being I think It would be more secure to design the system to be kept at each polling place for voting, not as a downloadable piece of software or website that registered voters log into. I am wholly ignorant to programming, but I am interested in keeping this country reliable at it's core systems and I think that this Community has the brain resources to do it.

[MrGamma]

Originally Posted by Elliott

Create an open source political voting system that has integrity.

That is a interesting concept... have you considered making an open source bank vault security system? You could post the the changing of the guard schedules ( with their home addresses and phone numbers ) out front of the bank along with plans for the wiring system and maybe some floor plans too...

I'm certain that at some point in time after people have made their pencil marks on a piece of paper it goes into a computer at some point...

Originally Posted by Elliott

I am interested in keeping this country reliable at it's core systems and I think that this Community has the brain resources to do it.

Nothing can replace human interaction and community involvement... have you considered joining the campaigns or running for office yourself to get a better understanding of how the Country can be reliable at it's core systems?

It's core systems being the human network itself...

I've never actually been to "computer class"... but I think if I sat through a few they would just re-enforce my belief that no computer system is secure so long as there is a human which can access or intercept it...

just my two cents...

[|pH|]

/ponders, this may go somewhere!

[F0551L]

/still pondering