Here it is, the spookiest night of the year and the prospect of another election day debacle is about as frightening a prospect as any. And why shouldn’t we be scared? What’s really changed in the past 8 years in regards to the process of voting? In 2000, the death of the chad pappy, the paper ballot, was all but assured. Now we’re 8 years later, the iPod of then is now the doorstop of today, we’ve got touch-based computing in our pockets, we can sign, seal and deliver nearly every bit of life’s required documents digitally and yet… The voting process is still antiquated and unsolved. How is it that we can file our taxes – transmitting uber-sensitive data over the ether, yet can’t send a simple authenticated vote? Where is the open source movement to solve this issue? Clearly we can’t allow one or two vendors (the Republican Voting Company… err Diebold comes to mind). Surely this is a problem that can be solved.