RE: Fw: [election-services] Voting Information Project

FWIW - my thoughts are - good that someone is finally making awareness of this issue - because the States / EAC have been MIA on this one completely. Most citizens are completely oblivious to the issues - even those who are electoral process saavy - because the computer side of it is a closed book to them.

The only faint signs on this are what the SOS CA did with EML510 and reporting 2007/8 election results - but the senior executive management there really don't "get it" - they just stumbled into this more by happenschance - because they thought XML would be a "good idea" compared to text formats they were previously using.

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Subject: Re: Fw: [election-services] Voting Information Project
From: "Joseph Lorenzo Hall" <joehall@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 28, 2008 10:52 am
To: "John Borras" <johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "EML TC" <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>, "Lori Steele"
<lori@everyonecounts.com>, "James Bryce Clark"
<jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>, "Mary Mcrae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:38 AM, John Borras <johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I'm authoring a blog post on my thoughts that I'll share with the TC
later today (PDT). best, Joe

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

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