Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

While I can't speak directly to the code involved, I want to say that
I'm excited by Ben's involvement- I worked with him when I was at
Harvard and he is a great guy, doing very interesting thinking. We're
lucky to have him involved, and with luck, I look forward to voting
with Helios in the next election.

Luis

On 3/12/07, Ben Adida <ben adida net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My name is Ben Adida, I'm a postdoc fellow at Harvard working on crypto
> and public policy. I spend a bunch of my time on voting systems, in
> particular those that let you or anyone audit the process from end to
> end. If you haven't encountered these systems before, they're
> significantly more powerful than your average voting system, with or
> without a "paper trail."
>
> I'm currently implementing Helios, a voting system with this open-audit
> property. Last week, I was on the GNOME MC irc, where I collected
> requirements for the GNOME election and explained Helios in a bit more
> detail. If the system is eventually good enough, the goal is to have
> GNOME and potentially other free software groups use it in elections and
> referenda.
>
> I've started a publicly accessible and CC-licensed wiki:
>
> http://helios.stikipad.com/
>
> I will keep this wiki updated with the full design and, more
> importantly, pointers to partial demos as they become stable enough. Of
> course the whole codebase will be free/open-source: I will move it to a
> public source repository as soon as it's in decent v0.1 shape (2-3 months).
>
> Your thoughts/comments/questions/criticisms are welcome, either on the
> wiki as public comment, or to me personally.
>
>
> -Ben Adida
> ben adida net / ben eecs harvard edu
> http://ben.adida.net
> http://benlog.com
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