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

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Stephen Waters wrote:

> Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >
> > 1. Prospective voting member(s) must create a login account to access the ballot
> > generation engine during a given election period.
>
> Is this login account permanent or per-election? Will it be tied to
> their already existing info currently kept in escrow by Judyth, Jan,
> Bruce, et al.?

I'm inclined towards a per-election login account schema.  As for the
exisiting mailing list, the only role that would play is to notify the
"members" (few of whom are currently verifiable) that wish to vote, that
they can go to the specified web page at the appointed time to create
their individual login account for the given election/vote.  Democracy
is participatory after all.

>
>
> > 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.
>
> Is this what you're saying:
>
> 1. you login to a website, it emails you ballot + ID
> 2. you then email back a filled out ballot or vote on the website
> 3. you certify your ballot on the website with the ID

Not quite.

1. you login to the website and create a user name associated with your
email address.
2. you generate your ballot by voting on the site.
3. upon submitting your vote, a receipt copy of your choice(s) is then
emailed back to you (for your own verification purposes) along with an
ID,
4. you must either log back in to the voting account, or remain logged
in after steps 2 and 3 and then
5. you must enter the ID in the appropriate field to fully commit your
vote (or perhaps even to scrap it, of course there may need to be two or
more fields for such a purpose).
6. all of the above must occur within the specified voting period.

Hope that was more clear.

Sotiris.

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