[Cryptech Core] info about commons conservancy
Rob Austein
sra at hactrn.net
Fri Sep 21 04:48:15 UTC 2018
My 0.02 EUR:
* All-electronic voting systems are evil, at least for the foreseeable
future (hypothetical future systems are a different conversation).
I phrased it this way because "electronic voting machines" covers a
wide variety of sins, and I don't have a problem with electronic
tabulation so long as the original ballots are human-readable paper
and are retained in case of a contested election result. Where I
live we use pen-and-paper ballots with electronic tabulation and
ballot retention, which is fairly robust.
* If the Commons Conservancy *as an organization* has taken a position
in support of all-electronic voting, that might be a credibility
problem for us. Similarly, if an obvious majority of the Commons
Conservancy staff have taken a public position in favor of
all-electronic voting, that too might be a credibility problem.
* If a small number of staff members of the Commons Conservancy have
taken a position in favor of all-electronic voting, well, they're
wrong, but I happen to believe that people acting as individuals
have the right to hold wrong opinions, and, more to the point, I
don't think that one or two individuals holding wrong opinions would
by itself constitutes a credibility problem by association for us.
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