Comments on: Who Did Your Voting Machine Vote For? http://www.liberadio.com/2005/11/07/who-did-your-voting-machine-vote-for/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Freddie http://www.liberadio.com/2005/11/07/who-did-your-voting-machine-vote-for/#comment-67 Freddie Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:22:44 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2005/11/07/who-did-your-voting-machine-vote-for/#comment-67 In addition to the Common Cause/Gathering to Save Our Democracy initiative, I think it's still critical that people advocate for two signficant reforms: 1. Open source software (which is software that is openly available to the public, including to security experts and computer scientists, for revies) for electronic voting 2. Voting machines that support instant runoff voting, which is a technique for reducing the cost as well as increasing the competitiveness of elections. There is certainly a lot of information available about the ways to improve our elections. The more people speak up on each of the items mentioned in Mary's post and mine, the closer we will come to improving the tools of democracy. For more information on instant runoff voting (and many other excellent ideas about improving elections), check out the <a href="http://www.fairvote.org/" rel="nofollow">Center for Voting and Democracy</a>. Also, for more common sense ideas about improving elections, check out the <a href="http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/" rel="nofollow">Commission on Federal Election Reform</a>, a bipartisan effort led by Jimmy Carter and James Baker. This is participatory democracy. If we do not participate, those who do win. In addition to the Common Cause/Gathering to Save Our Democracy initiative, I think it’s still critical that people advocate for two signficant reforms:

1. Open source software (which is software that is openly available to the public, including to security experts and computer scientists, for revies) for electronic voting

2. Voting machines that support instant runoff voting, which is a technique for reducing the cost as well as increasing the competitiveness of elections.

There is certainly a lot of information available about the ways to improve our elections. The more people speak up on each of the items mentioned in Mary’s post and mine, the closer we will come to improving the tools of democracy.

For more information on instant runoff voting (and many other excellent ideas about improving elections), check out the Center for Voting and Democracy.

Also, for more common sense ideas about improving elections, check out the Commission on Federal Election Reform, a bipartisan effort led by Jimmy Carter and James Baker.

This is participatory democracy. If we do not participate, those who do win.

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