I have not been able to participate in the this or the selection part of the
election. I used the PIN that was mailed to me to register. When it came
time to vote it asked for my PIN again, which I no longer had.
I have registered for many secure sites (bank, brokers) using a pin that was
mailed, but once I was registered the id and password were sufficinet, so I
did not think about saving the mailed PIN. If that type of security is enough
to transfer thousands of dollars, it should be sufficient for voting. Keeping
a paper copy of a PIN is not very secure!
I sent numerous emails to ICANN requesting a new PIN but it took three weeks
to get a reply.
Of course I still can't vote.
It really looks like they are going out of their way to make participation
difficult.
Herman
William Allen Simpson wrote:
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I've tried the election mechanism this morning at nearly the earliest
possible time, and after proceeding through all the pages, and verifying
my choices, suddenly the page indicated that I could not proceed at this
time.
First of all, that's a terrible error message. Content free.
Secondly, I noticed a very long URL at the top of my page, most of
which was not visible. I copied it into a text editor:
https://vote.election.com/icann/error.asp?critical=yes&desc=
Component%2EApplyVote+failed&errnbr=50101&errdesc=Invalid+credentials%2E
+Your+member+number%2C+PIN+code+and+password+combination+is+incorrect%2E
Now, that's dandy. If I'd mis-entered my credentials, I'd expect it to
tell me on the first secured page, before entering and verifying my votes.
Since I'm just copying and pasting, I'm a bit surprised that there was
an error. Just in case, I tried it on the ICANN member pages. It still
works! So, it looks like there's a problem in the verification system.
I know it's Sunday, early in the morning, but that's when the Board
chose to start the voting. Hopefully, somebody is checking for errors.
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