RE: [atlarge-discuss] Re: [atlarge-panel] RE: (fwd) [atlarge-panel] draft motion on membership vote

[bruce@barelyadequate.info]

Jeff, for those of us who don't have lengthy exposure to the DNSO-GA, how
about outlining the issues they have experienced.  If a problem can be
defined, a system can usually be designed to avoid it!

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon USA
bruce@barelyadequate.info
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|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com]
|  Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:57 PM
|  To: Vittorio Bertola
|  Cc: bruce@barelyadequate.info; atlarge-panel@lists.fitug.de;
|  atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
|  Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re: [atlarge-panel] RE: (fwd)
|  [atlarge-panel] draft motion on membership vote
|
|
|  Vittorio and all,
|
|    If you are working on a voting system that is similar to the DNSO's
|  E-Mail voting system than you might want to cease doing so.  That
|  system has time and time again proven to be terribly flawed.  The DNSO
|  archives are full of evidence to that fact...
|
|  Vittorio Bertola wrote:
|
|  > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:53:59 -0800, you wrote:
|  >
|  > >Jefsey Morfin wrote:
|  > >
|  > >|  IMHO it is too complex a proposition. It calls for a lot
|  of staff and
|  > >|  effort and it is far too much demaning on the members in term of
|  > >|  understanding of the ICAN situation.
|  > >
|  > >That's why I included "or similar Web-based voting options."  My only
|  > >thought was to accomodate those that dislike e-mail voting
|  and prefer a
|  > >Web-based interface.  But the vote itself is far more
|  important than the
|  > >vehicle we use.
|  >
|  > I dislike Web voting because I think we would have a much lower
|  > percentage of voters than by e-mail (let alone the fact that more
|  > people have e-mail access than Web access). As I already told, I am
|  > working on an e-mail voting system similar to the one we borrowed from
|  > the DNSO, and I could run the vote if necessary, or I could give the
|  > software to any trustee to run the vote. So it's not a matter of
|  > "staffing" - it's more a question of what do we want to do.
|  > --
|  > vb.                  [Vittorio Bertola - vb [at] bertola.eu.org]<---
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