public forums. The level of awareness by the general public is
so abysmal on these issues. Nobody is aware that the government
is actually BLOCKING the use of PKI for corporate voting even
among consenting adults. Electronic polling will enable so
many good things, in many institutions large and small, throughout
society. Today, the *only* arbiter of all decisions is money.
Representative democracy is dead since the money economy
always acquires more than 51% of the votes in any legislative arena.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=six+voting+vendors and
tell them we want (A) Open Standards and (B) Open Source,
and (C) FREE code. Free as in free speech and free, as in beer.
Todd Boyle CPA http://www.ledgerism.net/evotingLuddism.htm
At 11:24 PM 12/10/2003, Robert E. Frank wrote:
We have used PKI for many years and we want to embed its use it throughout the operations of a new, nonprofit corporation we are forming.
In addition to authorizing PKI applications for typical enterprise interchange purposes, we want to specify in the articles of incorporation and in the corporate by-laws that PKI-based applications will be authorized for corporate management applications.
For example, when Directors and Members can not personally attend annual or special corporate meetings, we want to allow the use of PKI-based applications to vote, submit proxies, and to remotely conduct other confidential corporate management processes.
However, my attorney advises the current California Corporations Code does not authorize the use of PKI-protected applications for corporate director and membership voting, proxy submissions, and other corporation management processes.
Can anyone be so kind to advise us of specific CA legal authorization for such uses, or to provide us with documentation to confirm that one or more California Corporations are currently authorized to use PKI to digitally protect and enable authentication of corporate membership voting, proxy submissions, and similar functions?
Robert Frank
President
Open Commerce, Inc.
Pleasanton, CA 94588
www.opencommerce.com
