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The web is all about interconnection, making links with people, places and pages. Here's we take part in that process.

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Contact details

Feel free to get in touch if you have any problems, ideas, comments etc.:

Jason Kitcat    jeep@free-project.org

Tel: +44 (0) 7956 886 508 Fax: +44 (0) 870 052 7114

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Links

The Bell
Industry Newsletter - Jason is on the Editorial Board

IVTA
Internet Voting Technology Alliance, instigated by SafeVote to create an IETF-type standards organisation. Hasn't been particularly active.

SafeVote
The most open of the corporate Internet Voting suppliers.

GNU
The grand-daddy of all Free Software projects, of which GNU.FREE is now a part. Truest to the Free Software philosophy.

OpenVote
An organisation that is working to envagelise Free Software in the American electoral system.

Smart Initiatives Initiative
A long running project to bring the Californian petition project into the digital age and thus open up the democratic process.

Rebecca Mercuri's E-voting page
Generally an unmoveable sceptic of electronic voting but she offers some excellent and though-provoking questions on here site.

Election.com
The big daddy of the new wave of Internet Voting companies. They do not disclose any meaningful information about how their system works. They launched just at the right time to beat the downturn and buy several old-school voting services companies.

VoteHere.net
Another big, new wave, Internet Voting player who have been reasonably open about their technologies however they are flawed due to their dependence (like Election.com) on a browser interface.

Lorrie Faith Cranor
THE page for Internet Voting links, Lorrie has also done work on an voting system herself.

CalTech/MIT
The words "jumping", "on" and "bandwagon" come to mind here. After the Flordia vote debacle MIT and Caltech launched a voting project to develop a wonderful Internet Voting system. They may well do so but for now their page is pretty empty.


In the News

Slashdot: Slashback: Election, Election, Election
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/14/0444247.shtml

idno: Open source voting solution already in the works
http://listserver.actrix.co.nz/pipermail/idno-discuss/2000-November/001709.html

freshmeat: Info page
http://freshmeat.net/projects/free/

maccentral: FREE e-democracy project develops on Macs
http://www.maccentral.com/news/0008/23.free.shtml

Binary Freedom: A vote for freedom
http://www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_id=9

FreeDevelopers: FREE one of two official FD.net e-democracy projects
http://209.249.55.157/edemoc/

Byte.com: e-Lections And i-Voting
http://www.byte.com/column/monitor/BYT20001117S0010

The Bell: Jason Kitcat joins editorial board [ I've had several articles/letters published too]
http://www.thebell.net

Montana ITC: Promotinv the development of Information Technology Services in the State of Montana, USA
http://www.mtitc.org/issues.lasso



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