{"id":47,"date":"2007-05-15T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/free-software-mtv-better-elections\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:49:14","slug":"free-software-mtv-better-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/free-software-mtv-better-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Free software + MTV = better elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a whole raft of issues involved with having fair elections, but Mako Hill is doing impressive things with his RubyVote Election Methods Library (and it&#8217;s web-based interface <a href=\"http:\/\/selectricity.media.mit.edu\/\">Selectricity<\/a>) &#8211; like <a href=\"http:\/\/mako.cc\/copyrighteous\/20070514-00\">hooking up with MTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This could be great for two big reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Trustworthy election software (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/new_diebold_vul.html\">Diebold is a good counter example<\/a>). Mako doesn&#8217;t seem too bothered about governments using RubyVote for &#8220;important&#8221; elections, but the tendency for good quality open source to be picked up and used may be a factor.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing buy-in to elections:<br \/>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~csik\/edgy\/?p=56\"><p>&#8220;One of the big arguments against preferential voting, or new voting technologies, is the fear that they would disenfranchise the average person who doesn&#8217;t yet understand how they work. Certainly, making all voting technologies open source is critical, but the issue of familiarity is worth considering. We\u2019re hoping that MTV \u2014 and eventually American Idol \u2014 will move their voting over to Selectricity, allowing it to work as both a technical tool but also pedagogically, training future voters.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\"> &#8211; Chris Csikszentmih\u00e1lyi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a whole raft of issues involved with having fair elections, but Mako Hill is doing impressive things with his RubyVote Election Methods Library &#8211; like hooking up with MTV. <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/free-software-mtv-better-elections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-open-source","category-web20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}