RE: [election-services] Voting Information Project

["Zelechoski, Peter" <pzelechoski@essvote.com>]

David -

 

I haven't been through it all yet, but I can already find several things where they could easily have used EML instead of reinventing their own.  Most of the work is currently focused on making publicly available the information about the election -- polling locations (plus times and dates), contests, candidates.  But that is just their first steps.

 

Google is providing the "backbone" through their collaboration space.  It also looks to me like there are two primary developers working on the XSD; it is a shame they didn't try EML (or maybe they looked but decided to do their own work).

 

It looks like the PEW Foundation is providing a bit of the funding.  I haven't heard of the JEHT Foundation before but they look very much like another project fund provider here.

 

- Peter

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From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:59 AM
To: Terryn,Johan
Cc: James Bryce Clark; Mary Mcrae; John Borras; EML TC; Lori Steele
Subject: RE: [election-services] Voting Information Project

Seems like there is already some overlap on the way they have defined candidate...

 

However - a lot of this stuff is very US specific and ancillary to the main vote processing - its logistics around voting.

 

Not sure EML works for them - else they would have used it?

 

Thanks, DW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [election-services] Voting Information Project
From: "Terryn, Johan" <johan.terryn@eds.com>
Date: Wed, May 28, 2008 5:00 am
To: "John Borras" <johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk>,  "EML TC"
<election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>,  "Lori Steele"
<lori@everyonecounts.com>
Cc: "James Bryce Clark" <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>,  "Mary Mcrae"
<mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>

John,

 

Could we just send them the reference to EML and EMC TC and see how they react?

 

 

Best regards,

Johan terryn

 

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From: John Borras [mailto:johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: woensdag 28 mei 2008 10:38
To: EML TC; Lori Steele
Cc: James Bryce Clark; Mary Mcrae
Subject: Fw: [election-services] Voting Information Project

What do we know about this project and the people behind it?  Is it a threat, should we ignore it, or should we encourage them to come inside our tent?  Views please.

 

BTW Our submission has now gone to ISO and Jamie will be doing a note shortly telling us the procedures and timetable from here on.  When we have the date from ISO for their ballot I'll call a TC meeting to discuss our tactics on lobbying etc.

 

Regards
John

M. +44 (0)7976 157745
Skype: gov3john

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@berkeley.edu>
To: EML TC <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 5:59:46 AM
Subject: [election-services] Voting Information Project

FYI.  There is a new project backed by Google, Pew and the JEHT
Foundation that has developed an election markup standard:

http://votinginfoproject.org/

best, Joe

--
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley School of Information
http://josephhall.org/

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