Re: internet voting -- ICANN, SmartInitiatives, etc.2001-01-12 12:30:02James: Pls take a look at www.safevote.com -- including www.safevote.com/tech.htm Also at www.ivta.org, and www.thebell.net Cheers, Ed Gerck -------- Original Message -------- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:46:30 -0800 (PST) From: "James P. Salsman" <bovik(_at_)best(_dot_)com> To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org Subject: internet voting -- ICANN, SmartInitiatives, etc. X-Loop: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org Was the ICANN election by Instant Runoff Voting or Condorcet? The terms are defined at: http://www.fairvote.org/irv/ and: http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/pol/votefaq.txt It is great it was by were choice ballots. As there seems to be a renewed commercial interest in election equipment, would an Internet Voting BOF be a good idea at this point? I would like to see the IETF take the lead in fraud prevention measures, and with luck produce some sane accurate advice to balance the commercial hype that is sure to spew forth very soon. Here is an interesting effort to use certificate authentication ("digital signature") technology to put California's signature gathering process online: http://www.smartinitiatives.org I think that is a good first step; far better than general "internet voting" in regular elections, which hasn't been demonstrated to be more fraud-resistant than absentee paper ballots by any government that I know of. Are there any such examples that I just haven't heard of yet? Cheers, James -- **************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) cook(_at_)cookreport(_dot_)com Index to 9 years of the COOK Report at http://cookreport.com Why ICANN is illegal. See 5 page version at http://cookreport.com/illegal.shtml and 168 page version at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf ****************************************************************
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