Talk:Open Voting Consortium

message: I got these from googling but there are more that need $ to access.
# Open-Source E-Voting Heads West - Wired - January 21, 2004
# E-voting is inevitable, despite flaws - Seatle Times - March 22, 2004
# Bay Area Programmers Develop Touchscreen Alternative - Berkeley Daily Planet - March 30, 2004 
# Volunteer Group Demos Free Election Software - Information Week - April 1, 2004
# Electronic voting debate: Can computers ever be trustworthy? - USA Today - April 25, 2004
# A Really Open Election - The New York Times - May 30, 2004
# E-voting vent: You can't tell if it worked - Seatle Times - September 20, 2004
# Voting decision creates turmoil - Sacramento Bee - August 5, 2007
I am sure many of these could also be used to build the article per WP:RS.
I am an active supporter of the OVC so editting here is clearly COI but I have listed several reliable sources in Section 1 below to establish notability. A little help integrating these sources into the article is appreciated. Low Sea (talk) 02:32, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the   template as the article has been vastly improved and now contains sufficient external citations Kiore (talk) 22:25, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable Sources towards establishing WP:Notability  

message: Everything except notability is needed (see talkpage); I have COI so cannot do it myself.
I added the links above and there is no doubt of Notability but this poor article needs lots of help. I am a supporter of OVC so it would be COI for me to edit directly. -- Low Sea (talk) 23:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attn ICU Team 

message: Back in the 1990's we who worked with or researched computer security and cryptography used to joke about electronic voting. Since most of us knew and understood the proofs for that electronic voting can never be made secure. (Well, unless a very major change in human understanding, intelligence and perception abilities happens.) We stopped joking about it and instead felt sad when the politicians here in the EU and over in the US started pushing for electronic voting systems. 
None of the existing and no perceivable electronic voting system can come even close to the security that the better paper based systems provide today. (But sure, there are some really bad paper based systems too.) Actually, most electronic voting systems are so bad that it's appalling, they don't even fulfil basic computer security requirements. I guess one reason is that any sane computer security expert doesn't want to work with it. 
But even if the best minds in the world would work with it, it is well known that it is an unsolvable problem. And hey, it isn't even really a problem, since we do have good paper based systems, so we don't need electronic voting.
--David Göthberg (talk) 05:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worth knowing about electronic voting 

message: This article is largely a puff piece. Does anyone have any sourced info on the group? Syntacticus (talk) 04:13, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Dude, it's a stub. Why not either A. Add sources and expand. B. Nominate for deletion (if it hasn't been through that process lately). or C. ignore it? You're a funny guy, though, if you think THIS article is a "corporate pr-style snowjob."Bali ultimate (talk) 14:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the article should be made a grease spot. Maybe it can be improved. Syntacticus (talk) 07:12, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  It has been; expanded, sources inserted into text, ICU and sourcing tags removed as a consequence. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.Bali ultimate (talk) 14:21, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Corporate PR style snowjob

message: Will probably remove the ICU tag soon unless there are major objections. There are now three reliable secondary sources - AP, SF Chronicle, Berkley Daily Planet -- woven into text.Bali ultimate (talk) 16:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Intensive Care

message: They claim to be a non-profit on their website, and paypal calls their payments "donations", but I'm having trouble locating their info in guidestar or on irs.gov at http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=96136,00.html . Anyone else have better luck? This is most likely when their nonprofit name is different from their public names I find. 76.14.66.55 (talk) 21:55, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is OVC a non-profit?