Re: Move to North Dakota if you really want a secret ballot, or ....

Hello Alan:
 
     Yes Alan, I agree that voter registration is an important issue with problems that a group like this could solve fairly easily as it just basically a database problem. Given the reacation you've gotten so far, my follow on suggestion would be for you to maybe crank up another organization, the Voter Registration Consortium (VRC) or perhaps Voter Registration Technology Consortium (VRTC).
 
Thanks, Ed Kennedy

Alan Dechert <alan@openvotingconsortium.org> wrote:
Thanks, Steve--haven't heard from you in a while

I think it is essential to reason about the whole process of voting. Making
the software for the voting machine is important, but, imo, there's a lot
more we have to think about assuming we're interested in transitioning to
the best voting system possible (where "voting system" does not equal
"voting machine").

Alan D.

> I think that this is totally off-topic. I thought you were going to
> build a voting machine that would be able to comply with the election
> laws of each of the 50 states (plus DC and the territories), and lobby
> to change any laws that would prevent certification of such a machine.
> And I thought that the purpose of this list was to help facilitate that
> goal. I don't see how a discussion such as the above advances the
> cause; it seems a diversion of energy from this list's purpose.
>

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