Editorial By Reg. By now you must have gathered that this issue concerns automating the voting process. While the basic design of many aspects of an automated system are discussed here, a system design of the magnitude needed can not be really done in the space we have available here. I would like to propose an Open Source project to create an effective voting system. The project needs volunteers to design and build the system.
Many questions are unanswered.
For example, what language to use. I hesitated to include Perl because of its tendency to become unreadable and unmaintainable. Again, a choice needs to be made, but I have no major bias, except that it be available on a lot of platforms under a wide variety of Open Source operating systems like Linux and its distributions. In the main article, I talked about giving the voter the ability to easily access any part of the ballot. Again, there is a need to review alternate methods for doing site maps , keeping in mind that the voter may be using a mouse or their finger.