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As a New South Welshman, I'll mob you if you suggest that the NSW Government is capable of anything but incompetence. Both major political parties are paralyse

by femto 12y ago

As a New South Welshman, I'll mob you if you suggest that the NSW Government is capable of anything but incompetence. Both major political parties are paralysed by corruption [1]. The irony is that a world leading electronic voting system was developed by Andrew Tridgell, who lives in the ACT, which is a stone's throw from NSW (in any direction) [2]. The NSW Electoral Commission was quite free to download the GPL source code and use it as a base. I gather the GPL'd system has since been replaced with a proprietary one by the commercial partner, with the proprietary system being released under the same name [3]. [1] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/icac-exposes-the-nsw-legislature-as-the-most-corrupt-parliament-in-australian-history/story-fni0cx12-1227040649242 http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/icac-exposes-the-n... [2] http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/electronic_voting_and_counting http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/electro... [3] http://archive09.linux.com/feature/38285 http://archive09.linux.com/feature/38285

bootload 12y ago
"The irony is that a world leading electronic voting system was developed by Andrew Tridgell" Of Samba, Rsync, rproxy, KnightCap, hacking Tivo, SourcePuller and a host of others. Also COMP8440 at ANU ~ https://www.samba.org/~tridge/ https://www.samba.org/~tridge/
kyloon 12y ago
I concur, the entire Opal/Tcard fiasco is already a good example of how things are done by the NSW Government.
- triggercut 12y ago
  As an aside, back in the early 2000's the NSW Government contracted ERG (a Perth based technology company) to implement a Smart Card system for public transport. ERG had already successfully rolled out Smart Card systems for other local public transport systems worldwide to much success, most notably for the Hong Kong public transport system, the MTR (Octopus Card), in 1997, which is still the largest such deployment to date with tens of millions of transactions daily. Unfortunately the NSW contract ended in lawsuits back and forth with the NSW Government trying to reclaim the project cost and eventually (arguably) led to ERG's demise. Sad that a successful Australian company, a leader in it's field, able to deploy complicated systems worldwide was (in part) taken down in it's own backyard by a (in comparison) pretty straight forward project.

by femto 12y ago

bootload 12y ago

"The irony is that a world leading electronic voting system was developed by Andrew Tridgell" Of Samba, Rsync, rproxy, KnightCap, hacking Tivo, SourcePuller and a host of others. Also COMP8440 at ANU ~ https://www.samba.org/~tridge/ https://www.samba.org/~tridge/

kyloon 12y ago

I concur, the entire Opal/Tcard fiasco is already a good example of how things are done by the NSW Government.

triggercut 12y ago
As an aside, back in the early 2000's the NSW Government contracted ERG (a Perth based technology company) to implement a Smart Card system for public transport. ERG had already successfully rolled out Smart Card systems for other local public transport systems worldwide to much success, most notably for the Hong Kong public transport system, the MTR (Octopus Card), in 1997, which is still the largest such deployment to date with tens of millions of transactions daily. Unfortunately the NSW contract ended in lawsuits back and forth with the NSW Government trying to reclaim the project cost and eventually (arguably) led to ERG's demise. Sad that a successful Australian company, a leader in it's field, able to deploy complicated systems worldwide was (in part) taken down in it's own backyard by a (in comparison) pretty straight forward project.