[gull-org] Opening Up E-Voting

[Anne Possoz]

Une présentation sur la e-voting à la Convention Open source de O'Reilly:
		Opening Up E-Voting, by John Adams
	http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2004/04/26/ovc.html

"The politics of e-voting may be controversial, but the technologies used for 
e-voting are not exceptionally complicated or difficult to understand. Now, 
two initiatives have opened e-voting systems to public examination and 
varying degrees of tranparency and verification. The Open Voting Consortium 
demonstrated an e-voting system called evm, built from commodity hardware 
running GPL'd software last April 1. A few days later, VoteHere opened the 
source to its proprietary VTHi e-voting software to public inspection."

The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) qui développe un prototype EVM
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/evm2003
qui semble fort bien accueilli.

"Open voting was defined by the late Irwin Mann in his 1993 presentation on 
Open Voting Systems given at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, 
as a system where:

 * every element of every component, both hardware and software, is in the 
public domain,
 * there are built-in capabilities for independent monitoring of software, and
 * there are institutionalized protocols for public monitoring of all 
components and the electoral process, sufficient to find any hypothetical 
discrepancy from the intended design, if it should happen to exist."

Bref, un article riche en informations techniques et sociales.

Oui, je sais, je devrais le mettre dans le site du gull...

					Anne