mlandauer

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by mlandauer 3y ago
For a similar project in Australia (that covers most of Australia) see https://www.planningalerts.org.au/
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F-scale: A personality test to measure the authoritarian personality (1947)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Show HN: How does your Australian MP vote on issues that matter to you?(theyvoteforyou.org.au)
21 points by mlandauer 12y ago|1 comments
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by mlandauer 12y ago
If you want to help solve this please contribute to @mjec's campaign to raise money for representation by a barrister at the AAT appeal http://www.pozible.com/project/183015
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by mlandauer 12y ago
There is a follow up freedom of information request on trying to get some more information about that advice here https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/documents_informing_t...
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by mlandauer 12y ago
I would prefer if the input to the software was published and anyone could verify the outcome. Unfortunately, currently none of this information is published and the whole system is based on trust.
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by mlandauer 12y ago
The algorithm is public. It's the Australian Electoral Commission's implementation of it, their software, that's used in public elections that they're calling a trade secret.
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by mlandauer 12y ago
The Australian software is not used for recording votes. It's used to assist the counting of physical ballot papers because the Senate vote counting system is extremely complicated. In this environment it's more straightforward to
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Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”(easycount.mjec.net)
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Australian Gov refuses to release source code to software used to count votes(theguardian.com)
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by mlandauer 12y ago
If you're concerned about using a hosted scraping platform because it might disappear check out https://morph.io - it's open source as well https://github.com/openaustralia/morph
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BT dismisses backdoor claims as "conspiracy theory"(pcpro.co.uk)
2 points by mlandauer 13y ago|1 comments
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Scientists revolutionise electron microscope(shef.ac.uk)
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The 3.1 million dollar website(smh.com.au)
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