[governance] Charter vote - issues

[Qusai Al-Shatti]

Dear Avri:
There is nothing to apologize for, we all appreciate your wonderful work on the charter vote and we do understand that it is somehow complicated. So we thank you for your effort (same to Vittorio) and looking forward to proceed with the charter vote. Just a suggestion: can we make a test to check e-mail compatibilities before voting? 

Regards,,

Qusai 


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The following message was sent by Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:15:23 -0400.

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> 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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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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