Re: [election-services] TC SATISFACTION SURVEY

John,

I don't see it has to be e-Voting!

On the contrary - we have success stories to tell without voting machines - because EML applies to the complete

process of election management.

So we can certainly demonstrate blank ballot delivery for voters - and that is a huge growth area - with increasingly

mail-in voting being an option for citizens everywhere.

Then we have election result reporting to the major media channels (Reuters and more) and online sites.

California and Belgium are great examples for us there - and more states here in the US are working to follow suit.

So I think we could organize an online event - show and tell style - around both those - and have OASIS host that.

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message -----
From: johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk
To: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: dee.schur@oasis-open.org, scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:57:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [election-services] TC SATISFACTION SURVEY

I have just received the results of the recent TC Satisfaction Survey for our TC and thanks to those of you who took time to respond. There are some comments made in the survey that I would like to follow up on.

- “Engage in more educational and promotional activities, such as webinars and seminars”

- “Conduct more interoperability demonstrations”

- “Provide more opportunities to promote compliant products”

These are all much along the same lines of the need to promote adoption of EML. Whilst this is a very laudable objective and one that we could easily do from a technical perspective, the barrier I see as facing us in all of this is the universal lack of political will to engage in any form of e-voting. Apart from the USA and Australia there are very few instances of countries looking to get involved in e-voting. So whilst we might be able to convince the vendor community of the value of EML through interop demos, webinars etc, I can’t see that those sort of activities are going to create any sort of break through with the reluctant politicians and academics. But I am prepared to be convinced otherwise.

Can I have your views on all this please and if the consensus is that we should embark on an adoption program then I’ll convene a TC call to start the process.

Regards

John Borras

Chair OASIS E&VS Technical Committee

m. +(0)44 7976 157745

Skype: gov3john

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