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The aims of the FREE e-democracy project
We are a free software project creating Java electronic voting software released under the General Public License (GPL). With this software we aim to:-
- Provide a secure and private system
- Create scalable and reliable software
- Offer a non-commercial, non-partisan voting alternative
- Use the GPL to create an open system that Internet users will trust
- Release a system that can be used to support the growth of effective democracy anywhere in the world
Additionally, in support of our wider development community, the project aims to:-
- Advocate the free software paradigm
- Evangelise the use of technology to strengthen democracy within a holistic understanding of the current malaise i.e. Internet voting alone isn't going to solve turnout problems
As an official GNU package and one of two electronic voting projects of FreeDevelopers.net our Free Software evangalism aims our particularly important.
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| Discuss & Debate |
Thoughts, amendments, disagreement and all that stuff should go onto the Free-dev mailing list.
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| Background |
A lot of this thinking comes out of Jason Kitcat's previous research writings. To get a background take a look at the project site where some papers are available in postscript format.
See also "Why electronic voting software should be Free Software" on this site.
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