Take two minutes to help open up city government

Submitted by Karl on July 21, 2008 - 4:24pm.

More eyeballs make all bugs shallow. It's an old saying in open source development circles.

The folks at Young Philly Politics and Hallwatch.org are trying to open up our city's electronic voting results on the Web sooner and to more citizens across the region.

click for more information.

Ultimately, there should be ZERO access to that back end database and a read only version of the results should be published to a public URL. Hopefully by pressing the matter, this will change.

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