At 18:33 24/09/00 -0400, Gordon Cook wrote:
>I certainly like an open source auditable election. Anyone notice
>yet that with election.com running the ICANN at large we will get no
>such thing!?
>
Gordon,
I actually agree that open source voting software may be the best of options.
But Where is it??
I went ahead and designed and commissioned the Polling Booth. I make its
use available for free. If it is going to be open source, I would like to
be paid what it is worth. Fair? It is quite complex with a lot of
functionality.
Any benefactors out there?
Auditing is a different matter.
Auditing votes is opening a can of worms at the best of times.
Voters want results. Any auditing process, unless it is needed to determine
the outcome of a power struggle, is a holdup for the voters.
It puts those who are demanding audits in control, especially if there are
no detailed rules for an auditing process.
It also endangers the anonymity of a vote.
This is the reason why so often members of associations vote by acclamation
for destruction of the Ballot papers.
In the meantime, cheap unsubstantiated slander against independent Polling
resources, without ever providing an alternative is not helping democracy.
If WXW sees a vote going against him in real time, perhaps he should
consider the feedback effect that real time result publishing has.
Real Time results is a feature that can be turned on or off, in accordance
with the will of the voters.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
the Cyberspace Association and
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org
