Date: December 14th, 2008

Dear Friends of Open Voting:

Accessibility expert and open source advocate Jason White of Australia has joined OVC's software development project. Mr. White said, "I have benefited from electronic voting in the past, as a person who is blind and who therefore requires a form of accessible voting. Unfortunately, the software used here in Australia at both State and
Federal levels isn't free/open-source... The ideal solution would be highly secure, completely open-source, designed for accessibility and easily applied to the various voting systems used today (including the more complex systems of proportional representation)."

We are inspired by this addition to our team. Jason White fits perfectly with our goals of providing a universal voting system that will work for the United States as well as other democracies around the world.

Alan Dechert
http://openvoting.org