On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 07:40 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > Hey, all- > > recently saw this: http://nigelj.livejournal.com/10507.html Can't > comment directly because I don't have an LJ account. > > Elections are fairly serious, important business- much less so in a > community where elected representatives are the deciders of last > resort instead of first resort, but still. So I'd strongly recommend > using someone else's code that has been tested and reviewed for > security and correctness rather than writing your own. Two open > options are: > > http://www.heliosvoting.org/ ^^^ Anyone know what's the purpose of the Google API stuff in this code? (Not necessarily a question just for Luis, but for anyone knowledgeable looking at the code.) > http://selectricity.org/ ^^^ I looked around for a bit and couldn't find the source code for the webapp part, but this is based on http://rubyvote.rubyforge.org/ , correct? > I realize Fedora has some unusual needs, and I appreciate the effort > Nigel has put in on this, but Fedora should strongly consider not > reinventing this particular wheel. Focus on the deliberative part of > what Nigel is working on (question tool, etc.) and leave the voting > part to those who have already worked on the problem extensively. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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