election software

[Luis Villa]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

Author cc'd. Ben?

>> 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'm told by the author that an updated source release of rubyvote is
due 'very soon', but I really don't know about the web frontend part-
I'd been under the impression it was also in the rubyvote source repo,
but I may be incorrect.

Luis