People visiting our booth will be able to create an election by filling in an on-screen form. After that, we can create the bootable CD with the operating system, ballot definition, and application software ready to make a complete voting system.
We can then remove the hard drive (not necessary, but helps to illustrate) and boot from the CD to turn the touchscreen tablet into a touchscreen electronic ballot printing voting machine.
We'll show the whole process from specifying what goes on the ballot, to tabulating the vote. All of this done with free and open source software ... inexpensive hardware.
While this is not a certified voting system for the U.S., it is already pretty close to something that could be used right now in many countries. And it could form the basis of a complete system for any county -- including Los Angeles -- once we have the partners needed to finish it and get it certified. Who knows? We may meet some potential partners this week end.
One problem: I have to raise the money so I can pay bills and get everything together for the trip to Los Angeles. If we don't raise the rest of the money we need, I don't see how we can do it. Thanks to all that have contributed, we are only about $1,100 short of what we must have.
As someone who spent all day a week ago at the CA Secretary of State's hearing on the future of voting technology, I am here to tell you the voting system is STILL a complete mess -- the vendor-driven model based on proprietary technology is completely broken. We can't expect them to fix it. We the people have to show the way.
If you care anything at all about the future of democracy,
PLEASE DONATE NOW
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