[governance] Charter vote - issues

[Avri Doria]

Hi,


I have an apology to make.  While it looked like it should be  
relatively simple for someone to put a web front end on the voting  
system, it will be more complicated then I thought.  The problem is  
that for the votes to be counted they need to originate from a  
specific email address, i.e. the address with which you are  
subscribed to this list.  Getting a front end to send from your  
specific address, especially if you use a web interface for email is  
almost impossible.  I would need to set up new email accounts for  
each voter on the system I am using for evote, and that is something  
that I am unwilling to do at this point becasue:
a) it is not my system but one I am being allowed to use and the  
addition of almost 200 new accounts is not a reasonable request for  
me to make
b) doing it this way seems to be a kludge.  I would prefer to work  
with some people to modify the eVote software so that a proper new  
interface could be created.  This, however, would take time for  
coding and testing that I just don't have at the moment.

So, we are back to an email vote using plain text email ballots.

Again, apologies.  I will initiate the vote shortly - on the igc- 
voters at igcaucus.org mailing list (probably Monday) - which will leave  
some time for people who object strongly to offer another solution.   
I know there are other, more appropriate, voting systems out there,  
but they are either not open source, cost money I don't have, or are  
just not being made available to me.  This is the only solution I  
have at the moment.  I still think eVote is a great tool for  
participatory on-line democracy, I just don't think it is, yet, a  
perfect match for what we need to do in the charter vote and in the  
subsequent coordinator elections.

Again apologies for my inability to provide the right interface.  I  
do hope, however, that we can get on with the process.  I also  
apologize for taking much longer to complete this interim period then  
originally advertised.

thanks
a.


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