[Fwd: [atlarge-discuss] WHAT MOST MEMBERS WANT]

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

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

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• To: Stephen Waters <swaters@amicus.com>
• Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] WHAT MOST MEMBERS WANT
• From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 03:11:58 -0800
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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

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