Hey Gabriel, Another voting system discussed on this list is Condorcet Internet Voting Service at Cornell:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html Please keep us updated on the situation at your school. I am sorry to hear that you are all having so much trouble. Kevin On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Gabriel, >> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 14:52, Gabriel Perez <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> [...] >> > We are planning on holding electronic elections at our University next >> week >> > to let the students and professors choose the next chancellor. Although >> the >> > vote won't have any direct consequences we are hoping that if the deputy >> > chancellor loses by a huge margin and this gets media attention, the >> board >> > of trustees will be forced by public opinion to change the process or at >> > least choose a better candidate. But we need a trusted, open source and >> > secure platform for this election. We immediately thought of Selectricity >> > since we were familiar with it due to the board elections. Does anybody >> here >> > work directly in Selectricity? Can anybody here contact Mako and ask him >> if >> > he can help us? >> >> I imagine it would help (and speed things up) if you specified what >> specifically you need. (from him or anyone) >> >> e.g. do you just want to know if it's ready for the extra load and >> what the escalation procedure is if it breaks or do you need something >> done ahead of the vote? are you looking to have your own one-off >> instance just for this vote or you want to use the main >> selectricity.org instance? >> > > Well first of all we will need the vote to be created since election > creation is not public yet. Also we would like to know if they can handle > the load. There are around 14,000 students and faculty at our school but we > really don't know how many of them would participate of the process. But > most likely only a fraction of the students will participate. Using the > selectricity.org instance would be perfect, there is no need to create a new > one. > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
