[Cialug] voting think tank comment

[Tom Poe <tompoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, All:  Over at:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/discus.cgi
if you click on the link for Think Tank, there's a huge international 
discussion going on about voting, electronic and paper, stuff.

The question is, can there be a simple computer program that displays 
the ballot, records the vote, and prints out the raw data for up to 1000 
votes in a precinct.  The other requirement is it prints out a ballot to 
serve as a paper ballot record.  That's the scope.  The idea is to put a 
computer in a precinct, and conduct the vote for up to 1000 people.  No 
network connection, internet connection, just the computer performing 
those tasks.  Maybe there has to be two computers.  One for generating a 
ballot.  And, one to receive the vote count.  Seems like it should only 
be one computer to me.

Anyone have a quick fix on what would be needed?  We don't want to go 
beyond what it takes to do more.  Oh, and it has to be GPL, not 
proprietary.  For all I know, there's a calculator in Engineering that 
already does that.  Is it GPL'd?  :)
Tom
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