[Cryptech Core] info about commons conservancy
Vasily Dolmatov
dol at reedcat.net
Fri Sep 21 07:37:32 UTC 2018
Seconded on that.
dol@
> 21 сент. 2018 г., в 7:48, Rob Austein <sra at hactrn.net> написал(а):
>
> 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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