On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 03:10, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote: > 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. Yes. Some observations: It gives people a chance to check that their votes were probably interpreted correctly -- at least on the front-end. If the code becomes available for download, programmers can verify the back-end. It doesn't assist people with email-only Internet access (I just googled for "Internet cafe email-only" so it appears there are quite a few of these around even in the English-speaking world). Granted, all of our current members probably have web access... I think it was Joop who reminded us all that you had to create an account on icannatlarge.org to become a member. It doesn't help with fraudulent additional accounts per person -- but I think we're all in agreement that that's too difficult to prevent at this point. In conclusion, I think for this election it's fine. I would like to see our organization expanded to include email-only people in the future, but for now, this seems ok. -s
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