[Osmf-talk] Articles of Association Update 2.0

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

I worked once as an observer at political elections. We were counting 
paper ballots up to 4 o'clock in the morning. I remember I was thinking: 
"This is wrong. Too much manual labor. There should be a machine."

Sometimes voters does not put down a clear cross, but write words,  
leave ballots blank, etc. Representatives of parties discuss or argue 
over such ballots. Because cheating could be done with paper ballots 
too, for example, holding in palm between fingers a small almost 
invisible pen one can draw quickly a line over a ballot, what makes it 
invalid. I did not see it happen myself though, but I saw invalid ballots.

I think there should be an open source machine, which could be verified. 
There are simple things which cannot be falsified, say, an HD JPEG image 
of a person with a front-page of a newspaper in background with thumb up 
or down. Certainly, most people do not know yet how to make a JPEG 
photo, let alone attach it to an e-mail message. But it is a matter of 
education.

brgds
O.

On 24.07.2014 11:28, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> indeed voting machines shouldn't be trusted (or used). Making a cross 
> on a sheet of paper is simple and verifiable (also later), helps to 
> provide a transparent voting process,