At 11:43 27/06/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >The IDNO has a working electronic voting system. A bit clunky, >but it >works. > Thanks for letting me know. It is a typical example of a bottom-up effort. The software is getting better, the bugs are getting caught and new functions are added as the need for them appears. You have currently the following options: -free voting -Voting as a group (group login and password) -voting with an individual password -anonymous voting -roll call voting -displaying results as voting in progress (on/off) -comments (named or anonymous) are possible and can be displayed along with the results. -yes/No , FOR/Against voting (more subtle voting) -polling/voting on a scale of -5 to +5 -polling/voting on a scale of 1-100 -electing from a list of (people/things) one tick only per voter. -voting for a list of (people/things) multiple ticks possible per voter -approval/disapproval voting for a list of (people/things) multiple ticks possible. The security is rudimentary (cookies), but the whole system is simple and transparant and can be audited by an independent party if an election result is questioned. Please check it out www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/ --Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of the Cyberspace Association, the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners http://www.idno.org
