Re: Electronic Voting

[Gerry Snyder <geraldcsnyder@gmail.com>]

Jody Nolin wrote:
> ....
> Just one caution on using Ruby, if Chip isn't available in the future,
> how many others can pick it up and carry on?  How maintainable is it?
>   

Ruby (and Ruby on Rails in particular) is a very popular platform for 
Web interfacing, and especially with data base access.

Maintainability will not be a problem.

It looks like a good way to go to me, and definitely more cost-effective 
than eBallot would be.

I was going to look into doing it myself, but would have had little/no 
chance of having an iron-clad product ready for the 2010 balloting, and 
I would not want to force Ruth to do the counting manually for longer 
than needed.

So, I strongly support John's proposal.


Gerry Snyder

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