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Subject: Trusted voting - finding the other pieces out there.
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Our team research assistant - Ed Dodds
- found these pieces today:
Specification for printed ballot layouts -
Open source consortium to develop process software -
with OASIS on developing a trusted process model.
Ed also found the below - that shows just how challenged
our voting systems will become over the next 10 to 15
years as technology is arrayed to maximize voting.
I was envisioning where a video phone could be used
to stream pictures of voters arriving at a polling station
to a remote server for example...next up - network
jammers in polling stations....and no vehicles parked
for more than 30 minutes in the parking lot...
And we see how vital it is to have separation of
electoral roll from the DRM systems...as the
trusted process model requires.
DW
----- Original Message -----
>I think it is generally important to make the
distinction between Voter >Data and Voter File Software. I have been working on political >campaigns in NYC and NYS for 5 years or so now and used a variety of >home grown databases for Voter Contact management (VCM) and also a >variety of data sources (vendors like Voter Contacct Services and also >getting data direct from boards of elections) > >In this passed election cycle i ran data for 5 state senate campaigns, >and provided data for a few more. On 4 Campaigns we used AdvoKit >http://www.advokit.net an open source web based VCM application >developed by the folks at the eVolve Foundation >http://www.evolvefoundation.org/ and supported by CivicActions >http://www.civicactions.com we "brought our own data" that we colelcted >from various county boards of elections, enhanced with some of our own >data and sent out for phone matching with ApT Data Services (who BTW >does Online VCM as well) > >Advokit is a really amayzing application that is primarily designed to >facilitate distributed (grassroots campaigning, you can read the >website > >for a full description) we used it for a more tradition top down >campaigning. Cutting lists centrally printing them and having folks >phone bank the lists or knock on the doors. We then had volunteers do >the data entry back into the system. > >You can have multiple "operations" tracking of contacts, multiple >questions etc... It is really a powerful system. > >Advokit is now being ported over to the Drupal/civicspace framework >from > >what i understnad, which is very exciting, as there is an active >project > >within the civic space community to add donor management and powerful >crm and from the discussion that i have had with the folks involved, >advokit will be seemlessly integrated. > > >The best part about all of this is that these systems are open source. >You find your hosting (i think that CivicActions is going to be >offering > >hosting packages) you bring your own data (buy it or acquire it however >you do) and then you are up and running with minimal recurring costs as >opposed to many VoterFile/Data vendors out there that charge data >licensing fees and software licensing fees etc.... > >I would highly encourage folks to look at advokit and consider using >advokit. as advokit grows, and more peole use it, essentially the cost >of doing this kind of Voter Contact work will drop and smaller >organizations or "poorer" organizations will have these powerful tools >at their fingertips. > >-Gregory > >Mike Weissman wrote: > > > >>I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with, and could share their >>opinions on, any of the vendors such as VAN, Huttleston, Leverage, >>Prevail, Trimeros, Astro2000 and others who provide web interfaces for >> >> > > > >>managing voter file data. I've used (some of) these in electoral >>campaign settings; I'm not sure if others here might have used them in >> >> > > > >>non-electoral campaign or other settings. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Mike Weissman |
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