[clug] e-Voting: What would you want in a smartphone App?

[Karun Dambiec]

On 20/03/10 2:44 PM, steve jenkin wrote:
> Remember Tridge, Rusty (?) and others produced something a few elections
> back??
> Starting again today, with Smartphone, what different approaches might
> there be?
>
> If the AEC were to publish an iPhone App, what would you want to know:
>
> - in order to trust the download?
> - to know the vote recorded was the vote you wanted to cast?
>    

That it is not closed source, and the platform it runs on is not closed.
And that the Iphone runs linux.

> I'd be happy if the App just printed a ballot sheet that I handed in.
> Perhaps only after I'd picked up a (random) barcode token after
> registration.
>
> What about the people who have other smartphones: Android, Nokia (?)
>
> And the ever present threat of malware, recently come to a smartphone
> near you (if you were to believe the Tabloid TV media).
>
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