[Cryptech Core] info about commons conservancy

[Patrik Wallstrom]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Rob Austein wrote:

>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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