[OpenID] Several Questions for the Current & Future Board

[Martin Atkins]

Nat,

I agree that the election should be as transparent as possible.

However, on the topic of voter anonymity and coersion, I agree that this 
may be a problem in a national election or something of similar 
significance, but since there is comparatively little to be gained from 
being on the board of directors for the OpenID Foundation I would not 
expect candidates to go to such lengths as threatening voters with 
weapons in order to get votes.

It would be interesting, however, to hear about how other organisations 
with an elected board or similar structure handle this situation.

Nat Sakimura wrote:
> Just for a record, I am in favor of making the software 
> publicly inspect-able etc. 
> Transparency matters, and it is one of the greatest tool that we are given. 
>  From previous posts on other topics, I think you have found that I am a 
> fan of transparency. 
> 
> Now that the election is almost over, I may as well comment on the 
> issues on the e-voting. 
> Guaranteeing a free will voting is a hard topic. The reason we have a 
> closed room in person anonymous voting with inspectors in most political 
> elections are actually to guarantee it. 
> When it comes to e-voting, this gets rather hard. 
> 
> In e-voting scenario, there is no inspector at the time of voting. It 
> may just so happen that the person was forced to vote with a gun. To 
> mitigate it, one has to be allowed to change his vote. (Still not 
> perfect, but is much better.)
> 
> There also has to be a guarantee of anonymity because it may result in a 
> retaliation. 
> I do not know how it was assured in this election, but perhaps the fact 
> that we were not allowed to re-cast the vote was related to it. I do not 
> have a solution to fulfill the both requirement. Perhaps a person with 
> more knowledge in this field can enlighten me. 
> 
> For financial transparency: there has to be, and I have repeatedly made 
> this statement, so my position has been pretty clear, I hope. 
> 
> =nat
> 
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM, David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sappenin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey all,
> 
>     I have a few questions for either the current or future board members:
> 
>        1. What kind of software are we using for the election, who
>           created it, and will it be released publicly for
>           audit/inspection purposes?
>              1. Do current candidate have an opinion about OIDF voting
>                 software being publicly inspectable/available?
>        2. Does the OIDF currently make it's budget and financial
>           expenditure information public?
>              1. Do current candidate have a position on providing full
>                 financial transparency of OIDF moving forward?
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     David 
> 
> 
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