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
