James:
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
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>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:46:30 -0800 (PST)
>From: "James P. Salsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: internet voting -- ICANN, SmartInitiatives, etc.
>X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>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
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