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Arriva lo scrutinio elettronico (Repubblica)
La Repubblica has an
article (in Italian) on the use of electronic voting machines in the EU
parliamentary elections. Editor's translation: "The software charged
with tallying the results, already used in a recent test in Sardinia, is
open source. 'We're not talking about a judgment on the superiority of
free software over proprietary,' noted the minister [Lucio Stanca, minister
for innovation and technology]. 'It's a question of transparency: with
open source any political group will be able to exercise its right to know
the criteria by which the program was written.'"
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Great for Open Source in General Posted Jun 8, 2004 16:57 UTC (Tue) by s_cargo (guest, #10473) [Link] E-voting might turn out to be the biggest boost to the whole open source idea yet. When the average person on the street starts to think about how important it is that voting software be open source, then perhaps they will begin to appreciate the value of open source in other applications as well.
Great for Open Source in General Posted Jun 9, 2004 0:42 UTC (Wed) by Luca_ (guest, #22184) [Link] Oh, "great for Open Source in General"? Have you ever look at the italian "Urbani law" that has passed on 20 May 2004 about file-sharing (including open source projects)? I hope our editor will soon comment that. However, this is the best I have found in english about this vague and ridicolous law: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/enrico.nic .
Great for Open Source in General Posted Jun 9, 2004 9:06 UTC (Wed) by prometeo (guest, #16200) [Link] The "Urbani law" as you call it is already undergoing changes, fixing most (not all) of the problems it has, so please stop the rant and wait for the real thing.Back to the topic: the new counting system should provide also a 50% save on expenses as well as the 50% save on time as noted elsewhere. And it should reduce the litigation (very common) between parties' representatives on the vote counts.
Great for Open Source in General Posted Jun 9, 2004 11:03 UTC (Wed) by Luca_ (guest, #22184) [Link] First of all, the proper name of the law is "Urbani law" and you should call it "Urbani law" as well. Second, it has already passed and is actually *active* whatever are the emendations or new proposals. I am not living in the future, you know?
Great for Open Source in General Posted Jun 9, 2004 14:00 UTC (Wed) by prometeo (guest, #16200) [Link] You probably don't live in the future, but for sure you don't know well the Italian law system... Until there's no judgement issued by the Cassazione (3rd and highest tribunal order) a law is simply a piece of paper without previuos literature: if the law is modified in the mean time, everything changes. Now, if somebody is going in court *today* for breaking the "Urbani law", the judgement won't be held before 2 or 3 years (yeah, blame the snail system), and such a law could have been modified a few dozen times or even cancelled.The changes for the Urbani law are already approved by the related Parliament Commissions, and are already scheduled for approvation. So stop complaining for something that is already being addressed and start acting on something more useful, like the european law on software patenting which is much more dangerous...
Great for Open Source in General Posted Jun 10, 2004 13:26 UTC (Thu) by Luca_ (guest, #22184) [Link] This is the first denunciation, if you understand italian: http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=48552
Arriva lo scrutinio elettronico (Repubblica) Posted Jun 9, 2004 7:00 UTC (Wed) by holzel (guest, #22192) [Link] Actually, the article says nothing about e-voting, it only tells about electronic counting. The actual voting will still be done by paper and pencil. This said measure only speeds up the counting by 50%.
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