[Cryptech Core] info about commons conservancy

[W. Stuart Jones]

* 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.

+1


Best regards,
Stuart

+1 847 809-6545 (m)




On 21 Sep, 2018, at 04:20 , Patrik Wallstrom <pawal at blipp.com<mailto:pawal at blipp.com>> wrote:

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.

+1
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