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

For me, the key reason for integration is the handling of *printed*
polling place voter rolls, as well as absentee ballots and
provisional ballots. Thus the processes are intertwined. Of course,
there are other benefits of doing so as well.

Best regards,
Arthur

At 4:59 PM -0500 8/10/04, Joel Harris wrote:
>That is not the case here in Indiana, but...
>
>I think that it is a "good idea" for OVC to look at such a system,
>but it should be a second project that comes along after
>successfully producing the voting system.
>
>The question becomes, how would a voting system integrate with a
>registration database? Are there hooks that would have to be put
>into OVC's voting system to connect with a voter registration
>database? Could integrating with a registration database be used to
>help with our perceived problem of announcing our party affiliation
>to the world when we show up to vote in a primary? How else could
>it be used? Maybe more importantly, would such an itegration
>"break" some of the things that we are trying to achieve with the
>OVC voting system?
>
>I think there are good things that could happen with such an
>integration. It might be good from a design perspective to think
>about how such an integration might be used by OVC's voting system.
>
>Even if there is no direct integration between a registration system
>and the voting system, it would be nice if there were an Open Source
>alternative to the registration issue.
>
>Regards,
>Joel
>
>Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
>
>>Two considerations:
>>
>>1) Many EVM vendors market registration products;
>>2) Often this is because an RFP will not consider a bid without
>>integration to registration databases (or revamping/retooling
>>thereof).
>>
>>I would think registration interfaces at the least and (moreso) having
>>something to integrate into a bid if called for in an RFP/RFB, would
>>be appropriate for the UCVS/OVC projects.
>>
>>Please correct me if I'm wacky, Joe
>>
>>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:08:54 -0700 (PDT), Edmund R. Kennedy
>><ekennedyx@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>

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