[atlarge-discuss] Re: Spcl Attn. Joe Baptista to:Re: [atlarge-discuss] what mostmembers want

[Joe Baptista <baptista@dot-god.com>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jeff Williams wrote:

> Dave and all fellow members,
>
>   Dave, if you care to check the archives of the DNSO GA
> voting history in the Discuss archives you will find that
> several people were able to vote a number of times
> using different E-Mail addresses.  I believe that Joe
> Baptista made several references to that fact.  Hence
> to assert that the DNSO GA E-Mail voting system is
> secure or in your words "Very Secure" is inaccurate
> at best.
>
>   Perhaps Joe can chime in on this particular issue...
> Joe, you have the floor...

Thats correct.  In the original @large elections I registered as myself -
a name well recognized by icann - and was rejected.  The reason given was
that they were unable to verify i existed.  So I registered as five women
and got to vote using all 5 fictious personalities.

cheers
joe

Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god

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>
> DPF wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:46:36 +1300, Joop Teernstra
> > <terastra@terabytz.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > >At 06:05 a.m. 2/04/2003, espresso@e-scape.net wrote:
> > >
> > >>It's also one of the reasons I believe an e-mail ballot is
> > >>preferable - one reaches more people fairly quickly and people
> > >>can respond more easily than by spending time looking at one
> > >>Web page after another. Some would disagree with me on that
> > >>but I think it is worth a try and could hardly get a lower
> > >>response rate than the recent poll.
> > >
> > >I hope you are aware of the fact that the voting members in majority think
> > >differently.
> > >Email ballot is not preferred.
> > >It is too easy to fake responses.
> >
> > 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.  If the questions had been asked through
> > the GNSO e-mail ballot system them a majority would have probably said
> > they prefer that way.
> >
> > ALso the phrasing of the questions was horrendous and absolutely
> > leading.  This is something I know about with eight years professional
> > involvement in writing non leading poll questions.  Describing one
> > option as "Asking Elizabeth to do it" instead of "Using the GNSO
> > Secretariat e-mail ballot" meant of course hardly anyone would pick
> > that one.
> >
> > The GNSO system is actually very secure.  It is almost fraud proof as
> > if someone votes from your e-mail address you get details of the vote,
> > and also you get to see in the results how your vote was recorded so
> > one can be sure the totals are correct.
> >
> > DPF
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