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Victoria expands Linux e-voting rollout

http://delimiter.com.au

Victoria’s Electoral Commission has flagged plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux software in the next state election in November this year.

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the voting has begun -- and if you're in the wikipedia world, please participate

http://www.lessig.org

"I can't begin to describe how rewarding it is to see the voting start on the question whether WIkipedia should exercise an option granted to it by the Free Software Foundation to relicense Wikipedia under the CC-BY-SA license. I am very hopeful the community will choose to exercise that option..."

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Licensing update - From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki

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"The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation invites the Wikimedia community to vote on this proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA), while retaining dual licensing with the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) [...] A vote will be administered to the Wikimedia community in order to decide whether to impl

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Please participate in the FSDaily editing process

http://www.fsdaily.com

This is an urgent call to the FSDaily community to start digging through the upcoming queue and voting on more stories. Without YOU acting as an editor the site doesn't work.

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Please participate in the FSDaily editing process

This is an urgent call to the FSDaily community to start digging through the upcoming queue and voting on more stories. Without YOU acting as an editor the site doesn't work.

(UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who has started participating. It is greatly appreciated. The more participation the better. So anyone else who still isn't involved: get in there and vote, comment, and submit.)

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Submitted by dave on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 04:58
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My take on negative voting on FSDaily

http://www.fsdaily.com

It has been suggested by one of our prominent community members that the use of negative votes should be confined to demoting spam. As the individual responsible for the introduction of negative voting on FSDaily, I feel I should explain my rationale for its inclusion and provide my tips on negative voting.

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My take on negative voting on FSDaily

It has been suggested by one of our prominent community members that the use of negative votes should be confined to demoting spam. As the individual responsible for the introduction of negative voting on FSDaily, I feel I should explain my rationale for its inclusion and provide my tips on negative voting.

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Submitted by dave on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 05:52
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Voting etiquette at FSD

http://www.fsdaily.com

I won't invite a flame-war by referring directly to the particular voting pattern, instead I'll describe my own voting etiquette which, I think, would eliminate such an abuse.

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Created by lozz 13 years 45 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 45 weeks ago
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Voting etiquette at FSD

I am still seeing a certain pattern of voting, by some participants, which I, personally, consider to be an abuse of the voting concept here. Why?

Because I see the pattern as being designed to achieve an end other than to simply commend a particular posting based on its own merits.

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Submitted by lozz on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 01:37
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Brazil: "The Electronic Voting Machine Will Be Linux-Powered"

http://marketmachines.newsvine.com

According to major newspapers, starting with the municipal elections of 2008, Brazil’s e-voting machines will use the Linux operating system, to be developed by the technical team of the federal elections tribunal the TSE. According to the TSE’s IT division, the advantages of using Linux in the electronic voting machine are standardization, since it is possible to use this OS in all models of the device, as well as transparency, since this is an open mcchanism in which all the source code is available to the public and can be freely audited. Another advantage is zero cost, because no license fees must be paid.

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Hackers find serious problems in California voting machines

http://www.tgdaily.com

"A new California study has found that several electronic voting machines have serious security vulnerabilities. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen commissioned the study which pitted two hacker teams, better known as “Red Teams” against voting machines manufactured by Diebold, Hart and Sequoia."

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The Future of Elections: Open Source Voting

http://www.osweekly.com

"I do not honestly care which OS each of you choose to run. For some of you, it will be Windows, others OS X. And for a growing number of the remaining minority, your OS of choice will be one of the Linux flavors available today."

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Open Source Resolution Passed -- California Democratic Party Executive Board

http://www.openvotingconsortium.org

Dear Friends of Open Voting, this is Great News and more evidence that the Open Voting idea is catching on. Thanks especially to Tom Gangale for pushing this forward!

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E-voting vendor succumbs to California source code demands

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Electronic voting machines vendor Election Systems & Software Inc. has finally given in to demands by California's Secretary of State office that it submit the source code used in one of its products. But it made it abundantly clear it is unhappy about the requirement.

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New York legislators keep e-voting software in public hands

http://www.computerworld.com

With this year's New York Senate and Assembly session now ended, local voting activists are chalking up a victory for the public at the expense of Microsoft Corp. and the e-voting industry.

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