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

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

Sotiris and all fellow members,

  This approach is a good one Sotiris but a few very important
concerns remain.  Here are a couple of them.

  How does your prospective system consider the following:

1.) Multiple logins from the same individual using many different E-Mail addresses
2.) Secure against Man in the middle hack attempts.


Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> 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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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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