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

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

Stephen and all fellow members,

  No it is not too difficult to prevent multiple/fraudulent additional
accounts per person, Stephen.  Registered E-Mail can do some of
that work for you as well as the addition of PKI or a TLS certificate.
Of course none of that is free.  But preventing or fighting fraud is never
free!  Not fighting fraud also is not free.  And in fact, if we are not
careful we will find out just how expensive not taking responsible
steps to address fraud in these sorts of situations can be!

  A word to the wise should be sufficient...

Stephen Waters wrote:

> 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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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 129k members/stakeholders strong!)
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