InternetNews - Web Developer News -- OASIS Begins Work on Election Markup Language If this works out, open-source fans would have a worthy achievement to cheer after the 2000 election recount debacle in Florida. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a non-profit XML interoperability consortium, this week put the finishing touches on a technical committee to standardize the exchange of election and voter services information using XML. Succinctly titled Election Markup Language, the standard, when hashed out by the new OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee, would guide such data as voter registration and ballots safely among hardware, software and vendors. http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_759241,00.html