Re: [atlarge-discuss] WHAT MOST MEMBERS WANT

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Sotiris and all fellow members,

  Thank you for chiming in on this very important point and issue
Sotiris.  I share much of your feelings here.  I agree that an E-Mail
based system is circumspect from a number of angles.  It can be
made to be secure and trustworthy, but the DNSO GA E-Mail
voting system was not a good example or of a type that is
such...

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> > At 08:29 a.m. 3/04/2003, DPF wrote:
> >
> > >To be precise, the majority of people who took part in an unofficial
> > >poll in your voting booth said they prefer to use the voting booth.
> > >This is hardly surprising.
> >
> > They could also have rejected the Booth, if they didn't like it.
> > The Poll is not for generating surprises, but for settling issues that hold
> > us up.
> >
> > >  If the questions had been asked through
> > >the GNSO e-mail ballot system them a majority would have probably said
> > >they prefer that way.
> >
> > The only way to prove that is to ask the questions again, but then through
> > Kent Crispin's system (a.k.a the GNSO system).
> > Can you arrange that within the next 3 months?
> > I will abide by any democratic result.
>
> Personally speaking, I am against the use of an email based system, and I did
> not 'vote' in Joop's booth either.  Let me point out that I have a real problem
> with the email based system as it can be easily manipulated.  I've never met,
> seen, or heard anything from a very large number of of our 'members' yet we do
> have a rather large membership base.  Based on experience of mailing lists and
> other various associations on the web over the years, one cannot help but be
> somewhat suspicious of 'members' you NEVER hear from until the time comes from a
> vote...
>
> I once communicated with Mr. Bertola (of the Muridae Family of the Order of
> Rodentia), on the schema of a hybrid voting system which included a log-in
> procedure but was email based, and he didn't even bother responding... this
> while telling us that he was devising a voting system for us!!  The non-events
> to date are pretty plain for all of us to see and they speak for themselves.
>
> I am lurking but not quit just yet.  But, I have had enough of the bullshit.  A
> strictly email based voting system is highly culpable in my view, and I don't
> care what else its advocates may state, they cannot controvert the veracity of
> that point.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>
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