Re: Open voting platform for the 2020 election - volunteers needed

[Chris Franklin]

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   Jul 21, 2020, 11:10 AM by libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org:

   Hi,

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   Em 19/07/2020 20:33, Chris Franklin via libreplanet-discuss escreveu:

   Needed: One or more teams who can self-organize to develop an

   open-source voting app/platform by early October.

   First, I would like to thank you for taking the time to discuss this

   subject and, while I feel that it's an important subject, being

   practically possible by "open source" proponents, it's democratically

   dangerous according to the political/philosophical/social movement of

   free/libre software, of which this mailing list is part of — while

   welcoming any input from "open source" supporters.

   As an abstract to [1], assuming a supposedly free/libre as in freedom

   software voting system, how one trusts others (voters, fiscals, guards,

   candidates) knowing that anyone would have the right to use, study,

   adapt/change the software, reuse the adaptation, share/sell copies of

   the original, and share/sell copies of the adaptation, all of this at

   any time before, during and after the process?

   The detailed arguments against using computers for registering votes
   can

   be seen in [1]. As for counting the votes using computers, I can't

   recall the reference now, but I remember that the ex-president of FSF,

   Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) once gave a speech/talk suggesting that,

   while the registry must be through non-electronic means, voting can be

   aided by computers only if there is a second check made by humans.

   An addendum comes from the fact that duress/coercion can interfere in

   the moment of the voter registering per vote, thus resulting in a

   non-reversible action whose effects will endure for at least a year.

   I know a member of LibrePlanet Brasil ([2]), nicknamed Lunovox

   Heavenfinder ([3]) , who is trying to formulate some points that need
   to

   be changed, at least in Brazil's election law, in order for a

   computer-aided voting system to have *a chance/possibility* to work
   and,

   one of these points that I have heard from per is a proposal to allow

   the citizen to change his vote at any time and have that reflect

   periodically shorter than a year (not just in some fixed set of
   election

   dates that only happen once a year or with longer periods). However,

   since this proposal involves big changes to the recommendations already

   thoroughly studied by the community back in 2011, besides the language

   barrier, and due to other immediate issues I have to solve before I can

   help, we couldn't come up with a final write up of the proposal to send

   to FSF, GNU and this LibrePlanet group.

   # References

   [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-digital-society.html#voting .

   [2]: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Brasil .

   [3]: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Lunovox .

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