RE: [election-services] Twitter and Elections / Action Groups / Partyapparatus and Open Sourced Democracy

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Joe,

 

Actually the reverse is true!  The EML 530 is something the States themselves can do independently of the vendors!

 

California actually build theirs out of the database they maintain of all the precinct level votes cast and reported to them by the various vendors kit.

 

While not ideal for strict auditing purposes - it does provide for statistical and trend analysis at a minimum - and may have other applicabilities - subject to States supporting requests for additional gradularity in what is reported statistically.

 

Thanks, DW

 

 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [election-services] Twitter and Elections / Action Groups
/ Party apparatus and Open Sourced Democracy
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, February 05, 2009 12:06 pm
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
Cc: eml <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info> wrote:
>
> We now have the EML 530 statistics for this purpose.
>
> Please let me know if you need any changes for that - because its a new
> message in V6!
>
> This is the format that CA used - so it has been field tested - and Sven
> confirmed for me that it covers off Belgiums current use pattern.

I'll have to find time to look at 530 and see if it lends itself well
to work like post-election auditing (where we need to be able to do
various kinds of math on unofficial totals for complicated (or simple)
sample selection, etc.). Obviously, it's not much good unless it makes
it into the vendors' products and then those products get certified
(which is something few of us have control over).

best, Joe

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