Friday, May 27, 2005
Negotiating the vendor minefield - ES&S an example
State Board of Elections (BOE) officials have enough to worry about with interpreting legislation, understanding technology, and wrestling with budgets. Now they also have to grapple with vendor politics and certification angst.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Gideon0525.htm
Yet more evidence of the need to have election systems based on open public specifications and open source foundation components so that decision makers can rest assured that teh technology has been peer reviewed and developed by the community.
Unfortunately the BOE staff have not yet realized that for a fraction of the effort they are spending on traversing the vendor minefield - they could fund an open source initiative that will deliver a better product vastly less costly and based on open standards.
The OVC (Open Voting Consortium) has one such project already in progress and the OASIS EML team is looking to jump start another too.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Gideon0525.htm
Yet more evidence of the need to have election systems based on open public specifications and open source foundation components so that decision makers can rest assured that teh technology has been peer reviewed and developed by the community.
Unfortunately the BOE staff have not yet realized that for a fraction of the effort they are spending on traversing the vendor minefield - they could fund an open source initiative that will deliver a better product vastly less costly and based on open standards.
The OVC (Open Voting Consortium) has one such project already in progress and the OASIS EML team is looking to jump start another too.
# posted by DRRW @ 10:28 AM 
