[OpenID] Several Questions for the Current & Future Board

Peter Williams pwilliams at rapattoni.com
Sat Dec 20 19:31:54 UTC 2008


Once your allowed to inspect the election software (a fun appliction of openid, only), if its especially lacking in integrity would you question the legitimacy of the incoming board?

Assuming an independent audit is run over the last boards actions, do you believe the report should be made public (or withheld from members like some of the research work products ordered by the last board/eo)?

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From: Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OpenID] Several Questions for the Current & Future Board

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?
    *   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?
    *   Do current candidate have a position on providing full financial transparency of OIDF moving forward?

Thanks!

David



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