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Em 19/07/2020 20:33, Chris Franklin via libreplanet-discuss escreveu: > Needed: One or more teams who can self-organize to develop an > open-source voting app/platform by early October. First, I would like to thank you for taking the time to discuss this subject and, while I feel that it's an important subject, being practically possible by "open source" proponents, it's democratically dangerous according to the political/philosophical/social movement of free/libre software, of which this mailing list is part of — while welcoming any input from "open source" supporters. As an abstract to [1], assuming a supposedly free/libre as in freedom software voting system, how one trusts others (voters, fiscals, guards, candidates) knowing that anyone would have the right to use, study, adapt/change the software, reuse the adaptation, share/sell copies of the original, and share/sell copies of the adaptation, all of this at any time before, during and after the process? The detailed arguments against using computers for registering votes can be seen in [1]. As for counting the votes using computers, I can't recall the reference now, but I remember that the ex-president of FSF, Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) once gave a speech/talk suggesting that, while the registry must be through non-electronic means, voting can be aided by computers only if there is a second check made by humans. An addendum comes from the fact that duress/coercion can interfere in the moment of the voter registering per vote, thus resulting in a non-reversible action whose effects will endure for at least a year. I know a member of LibrePlanet Brasil ([2]), nicknamed Lunovox Heavenfinder ([3]) , who is trying to formulate some points that need to be changed, at least in Brazil's election law, in order for a computer-aided voting system to have *a chance/possibility* to work and, one of these points that I have heard from per is a proposal to allow the citizen to change his vote at any time and have that reflect periodically shorter than a year (not just in some fixed set of election dates that only happen once a year or with longer periods). However, since this proposal involves big changes to the recommendations already thoroughly studied by the community back in 2011, besides the language barrier, and due to other immediate issues I have to solve before I can help, we couldn't come up with a final write up of the proposal to send to FSF, GNU and this LibrePlanet group. # References [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-digital-society.html#voting . [2]: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Brasil . [3]: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Lunovox . -- * Ativista do software livre * https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno * Membro dos grupos avaliadores de * Software (Free Software Directory) * Distribuições de sistemas (FreedSoftware) * Sites (Free JavaScript Action Team) * Não sou advogado e não fomento os não livres * Sempre veja o spam/lixo eletrônico do teu e-mail * Ou coloque todos os recebidos na caixa de entrada * Sempre assino e-mails com OpenPGP * Chave pública: vide endereço anterior * Qualquer outro pode ser fraude * Se não tens OpenPGP, ignore o anexo "signature.asc" * Ao enviar anexos * Docs., planilhas e apresentações: use OpenDocument * Outros tipos: vide endereço anterior * Use protocolos de comunicação federadas * Vide endereço anterior * Mensagens secretas somente via * XMPP com OMEMO * E-mail criptografado e assinado com OpenPGP
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