The eVote/"The Clerk" project from Marilyn Davis has not seen additional development for five years +. See:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6448

Moreover, email is no longer the "killer app" for online elections/polling and surveys.

With the ability to use time-limited tokens multiple times, the user-friendly interface of LimeSurvey, combined with social networking and online collaboration tools, could provide a secure online collaboration/deliberation suite to allow any number of participants to take part in online debate, and, most importantly, change their opinions and their votes any number of times within a set time-span.

As the principal researcher of the Open Source Learning Lab (OSLL) at Lethbridge College in Alberta, Canada, I am proposing a massively collaborative data-collection project. While omnibus political polling of randomly selected respondents would be done in our open source call centre, many surveys would be most useful when gathering opinions from invited members of various communities of practice. Inter-institutional surveys among colleges and universities re. best practices in teaching and learning are my primary interest at present.

The ability to allow invited participants (hundreds, or even thousands) to reuse a token an unlimited number of times within an agreed upon time-span would allow large-scale collaboration in defining problems, and collectively forming opinion through deliberation and debate.

Jim Manis, PHD
Open Source Learning Lab, Lethbridge College
3000 College Drive South
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K1L6
(403) 382-6978
jim.manis@lethbridgecollege.ca

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