<div>Avri, you have my trust. Handle it with care. I have tested the voters' list. It is working..</div> <div> </div> <div>Nnenna<BR><BR><B><I>Qusai Al-Shatti <qshatti@safat.kisr.edu.kw></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Avri and everyone:<BR>I have no problem with the privacy issues that you mentioned. I join jeremy in expressing my trust in Avri judgement as an honest broker and organizer of the voting process on the caucus charter.<BR><BR>Thanks Avri for all your efforts<BR><BR>Qusai Al-Shatti<BR><BR>--- Message Header --- <BR><BR>The following message was sent by Avri Doria <AVRI@ACM.ORG>on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:06:48 -0400.<BR><BR>--- Original Message --- <BR><BR>> Hi,<BR>> <BR>> I am back from my research trip and back to trying to get the charter <BR>> approved.<BR>> <BR>> I now have voting software working on igcaucus.org. Anyone
who is <BR>> interested in the details of this software is welcome to read the <BR>> manual available at: http://www.igcaucus.org/eVote.pdf. The voting <BR>> software is open source and is provided by Marilyn Davis, Ph.D. at <BR>> http://www.deliberate.com/ .<BR>> <BR>> In order to use this software, I will be setting up a new mailing <BR>> list called IGC-voters@igcaucus.org (it wasn't possible to link it to <BR>> the actual governance mailing list).<BR>> This list will be made up of those who were both:<BR>> - subscribed to the governance list as of 060724<BR>> - subscribed to the governance list with a individual name attached <BR>> to the subscription.<BR>> <BR>> Ironically, there is a issue with attaching personal names to the IGC- <BR>> voters list. Since it need to use an older version of mailman (1.13) <BR>> it is not capable of including the subscriber's name, only the email <BR>> address.<BR>> <BR>> There
is also a privacy issue with the software. As listed in every <BR>> ballot:<BR>> <BR>> > Warnings: Although eVote will not reveal your vote to the other<BR>> > members of the voting community, the system administrator of the<BR>> > computer that stores your vote can quite easily see the voting<BR>> > records of individuals. Also, there is the possibility that your<BR>> > ballot can be seen by a "snooper", someone who intercepts your<BR>> > ballot in transit.<BR>> ><BR>> > The integrity of the poll, i.e., the accuracy of the count, is<BR>> > susceptible to being tampered with by the system administrator<BR>> > of the computer running the eVote(R)/Clerk software.<BR>> ><BR>> > Both the privacy of your vote and the integrity of the poll are<BR>> > susceptible to attack at your own computer.<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> This means that the administrator of igcaucus.org - me - has the <BR>>
ability to look at individual voting records and to tamper with the <BR>> results. I promise not to do this, and to only look at logs as <BR>> necessary for system administration. But it is up to the <BR>> participants of the IGC whether they trust me to actually not do look <BR>> or tamper with votes. Of course if in the end we opt for non secret <BR>> votes, this won't be an issue. But if we decide to go for secret <BR>> votes I will be bound by a promise to not look at and to not tamper <BR>> with any of the IGC votes. If the IGC cannot accept this personal <BR>> guarantee, then I will ask help in finding free and open software <BR>> that does not have this vulnerability.<BR>> <BR>> There are several interesting pluses to this software. One of its <BR>> strongest features is that it allows anyone who is subscribed to the <BR>> list to initiate a poll or a petition. I think that over time the <BR>> IGC could actually take
advantage of this capability. Setting up a <BR>> vote is easy (once all the software and the lists are up and running) <BR>> and it is easy to make any poll open or closed, to use a yes/no <BR>> format or a rating 1-n format. It is also possible to set up <BR>> petitions as well as polls. It is a very rich package. It is also <BR>> possible, I understand from my reading to work in multiple <BR>> languages. I have not tried this yet and don't intent to for the <BR>> charter, but do think it would be an interesting capability to take <BR>> advantage of later. I would also note that the Marilyn, the author <BR>> of the program is very helpful, so as we progress in our usage of <BR>> advanced features, we will be able get assistance if needed.<BR>> <BR>> So, unless there are objections from the caucus, i intend to populate <BR>> the the IGC-voter's list as mentioned above. As I subscribe people, <BR>> they will receive a welcome
message. Since this list is being create <BR>> as an opt-out list, I apologize in advance for anyone who is <BR>> subscribed who does not wish to be. And of course I invite them to <BR>> unsubscribe. If you know already that you do NOT wish to be <BR>> subscribed to the IGC-voters list, please let me know off list. I <BR>> will let this list know when I have finished the subscription effort <BR>> so that anyone who has not received the welcome message and who <BR>> believes they should have, can let me know before the vote starts.<BR>> <BR>> Also, since there have been no comments on the charter for the last <BR>> several weeks, I will take 1.6 as the charter for the vote. I will <BR>> create the ballot in the next few days and post it for a brief sanity <BR>> review.<BR>> <BR>> If all goes well, I expect to initiate the charter vote by 27 August <BR>> to last until 12 September. But I have been optimistic before.<BR>>
<BR>> thanks<BR>> a.<BR>> ____________________________________________________________<BR>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR>> governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR>> governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org<BR>> <BR>> For all list information and functions, see:<BR>> http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance<BR>> <BR>Hi,<BR>> <BR>> I am back from my research trip and back to trying to get the charter <BR>> approved.<BR>> <BR>> I now have voting software working on igcaucus.org. Anyone who is <BR>> interested in the details of this software is welcome to read the <BR>> manual available at: http://www.igcaucus.org/eVote.pdf. The voting <BR>> software is open source and is provided by Marilyn Davis, Ph.D. at <BR>> http://www.deliberate.com/ .<BR>> <BR>> In order to use this software, I will be setting up a new mailing <BR>> list called
IGC-voters@igcaucus.org (it wasn't possible to link it to <BR>> the actual governance mailing list).<BR>> This list will be made up of those who were both:<BR>> - subscribed to the governance list as of 060724<BR>> - subscribed to the governance list with a individual name attached <BR>> to the subscription.<BR>> <BR>> Ironically, there is a issue with attaching personal names to the IGC- <BR>> voters list. Since it need to use an older version of mailman (1.13) <BR>> it is not capable of including the subscriber's name, only the email <BR>> address.<BR>> <BR>> There is also a privacy issue with the software. As listed in every <BR>> ballot:<BR>> <BR>> > Warnings: Although eVote will not reveal your vote to the other<BR>> > members of the voting community, the system administrator of the<BR>> > computer that stores your vote can quite easily see the voting<BR>> > records of individuals. Also, there is the
possibility that your<BR>> > ballot can be seen by a "snooper", someone who intercepts your<BR>> > ballot in transit.<BR>> ><BR>> > The integrity of the poll, i.e., the accuracy of the count, is<BR>> > susceptible to being tampered with by the system administrator<BR>> > of the computer running the eVote(R)/Clerk software.<BR>> ><BR>> > Both the privacy of your vote and the integrity of the poll are<BR>> > susceptible to attack at your own computer.<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> This means that the administrator of igcaucus.org - me - has the <BR>> ability to look at individual voting records and to tamper with the <BR>> results. I promise not to do this, and to only look at logs as <BR>> necessary for system administration. But it is up to the <BR>> participants of the IGC whether they trust me to actually not do look <BR>> or tamper with votes. Of course if in the end we opt for non secret <BR>>
votes, this won't be an issue. But if we decide to go for secret <BR>> votes I will be bound by a promise to not look at and to not tamper <BR>> with any of the IGC votes. If the IGC cannot accept this personal <BR>> guarantee, then I will ask help in finding free and open software <BR>> that does not have this vulnerability.<BR>> <BR>> There are several interesting pluses to this software. One of its <BR>> strongest features is that it allows anyone who is subscribed to the <BR>> list to initiate a poll or a petition. I think that over time the <BR>> IGC could actually take advantage of this capability. Setting up a <BR>> vote is easy (once all the software and the lists are up and running) <BR>> and it is easy to make any poll open or closed, to use a yes/no <BR>> format or a rating 1-n format. It is also possible to set up <BR>> petitions as well as polls. It is a very rich package. It is also <BR>> possible, I understand from
my reading to work in multiple <BR>> languages. I have not tried this yet and don't intent to for the <BR>> charter, but do think it would be an interesting capability to take <BR>> advantage of later. I would also note that the Marilyn, the author <BR>> of the program is very helpful, so as we progress in our usage of <BR>> advanced features, we will be able get assistance if needed.<BR>> <BR>> So, unless there are objections from the caucus, i intend to populate <BR>> the the IGC-voter's list as mentioned above. As I subscribe people, <BR>> they will receive a welcome message. Since this list is being create <BR>> as an opt-out list, I apologize in advance for anyone who is <BR>> subscribed who does not wish to be. And of course I invite them to <BR>> unsubscribe. If you know already that you do NOT wish to be <BR>> subscribed to the IGC-voters list, please let me know off list. I <BR>> will let this list know when I have
finished the subscription effort <BR>> so that anyone who has not received the welcome message and who <BR>> believes they should have, can let me know before the vote starts.<BR>> <BR>> Also, since there have been no comments on the charter for the last <BR>> several weeks, I will take 1.6 as the charter for the vote. I will <BR>> create the ballot in the next few days and post it for a brief sanity <BR>> review.<BR>> <BR>> If all goes well, I expect to initiate the charter vote by 27 August <BR>> to last until 12 September. But I have been optimistic before.<BR>> <BR>> thanks<BR>> a.<BR>> ____________________________________________________________<BR>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR>> governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR>> governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org<BR>> <BR>> For all list information and functions, see:<BR>>
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