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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> 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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Just for a record, I am in favor of making the software publicly inspect-able etc. <div>Transparency matters, and it is one of the greatest tool that we are given. </div><div>From previous posts on other topics, I think you have found that I am a fan of transparency. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Now that the election is almost over, I may as well comment on the issues on the e-voting. </div><div>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. </div>
<div>When it comes to e-voting, this gets rather hard. </div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>There also has to be a guarantee of anonymity because it may result in a retaliation. </div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For financial transparency: there has to be, and I have repeatedly made this statement, so my position has been pretty clear, I hope. </div><div><br></div><div>=nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM, David Fuelling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sappenin at gmail.com">sappenin at gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey all,<br><br>I have a few questions for either the current or future board members:<br><ol><li>What kind of software are we using for the election, who created it, and will it be released publicly for audit/inspection purposes?</li>
<ol><li>Do current candidate have an opinion about OIDF voting software being publicly inspectable/available?<br></li></ol><li>Does the OIDF currently make it's budget and financial expenditure information public?<br>
</li><ol><li>Do current candidate have a position on providing full financial transparency of OIDF moving forward?<br></li></ol></ol>Thanks!<br><font color="#888888"><br>David <br><br><br>
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