[OpenID] Several Questions for the Current & Future Board

[Nat Sakimura]

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> 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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