sorry, as noted on the list my email address has changed. looking in my Sent archives, it looks like I accidentally used the wrong "from:" address. I've got 4, now, so please understand. I've got to get up early, so I'll look at it tomorrow or Sunday. -s On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 03:13, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote: > Below is the note I sent Stephen Waters on April 2nd regarding one > possible schema for implementing a voting mechanism which would be more > trustworthy than an email vote. Mr. Waters didn't even respond. Shows > how really interested he was in the whole idea. > > Reading the recent remarks by Judyth on a voting mechanism which allows > you to generate a ballot and send it back later, I was struck by the > similarity of that concept with my own as outlined to Mr. Waters on > April 2.. Draw your own conclusions, but I will code and implement such > a system, with or without approval from Mr. Waters, Vittorio Bertola, or > Judyth Mermelstein. The obstructors have been many, but their methods > have been discovered and will not be trusted henceforth. > > Sotiris Sotiropoulos > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com> > To: Stephen Waters <swaters@amicus.com> > Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] WHAT MOST MEMBERS WANT > Date: 02 Apr 2003 03:11:58 -0800 > > > > Stephen Waters wrote: > > > p.s., I may not always like your tone, but I'd be happy to look at your > > email login proposal (if you still feel like discussing it). I have an > > inkling of what you're getting at and it sounds interesting. > > Actually, there are a few variants to the idea, as well as a number of safeguards > that could be added. In very rough outline, it works along the following general > sequence of events: > > 1. Prospective voting member(s) must create a login account to access the ballot > generation engine during a given election period. > 2. after login, form-based ballot generation engine is displayed and after a > completed submission it sends one copy of the completed ballot along with a unique > identifier to the Member's registered email address, while a database-driven vote > tabulator registers but does not commit the ballot to the final results. > 3. In order for her vote to be committed, the Member must retrieve the unique > identifier sent in her ballot copy and submit it to the tabulator via her login > account thereby finalize her vote. > > As I said, a rough outline. Your ideas? > > Sotiris > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: atlarge-discuss-unsubscribe@lists.fitug.de > For additional commands, e-mail: atlarge-discuss-help@lists.fitug.de
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