[governance] Maryland Town Tests New Cryptographic Voting System

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

 See:
mailto:chris at swiedler.org
ceswiedler writes "In Tuesday's election voters in Takoma Park, MD
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/scantegrityused a new cryptographic 
voting system designed by David Chaum with researchers from several universities 
including MIT and the University of Maryland. Voters use a special ink to 
mark their ballots, which reveals three-digit codes which they can later 
check against a website to verify their vote was tallied. Additionally, 
anyone can download election data from a 
https://scantegrity.org/svn/data/takoma-nov3-2009/PUBLIC/PUBLIC/Subversion 
repository and verify the overall accuracy of the
results without seeing the actual choices of any individual voter."




  Perhaps ICANN can take a follow-on initiative in seeking
further information in the interest of implimentation and 
use of this seemingly promising voting system so that issues
that are being considered or have been proposed to ICANN can
be voted upon by any and all Interested stakeholders most
especially users?

Paul, I hope that this method meets with at least your
initial approval?  Please advise.

The IGF/IGC may also wish to consider this voting method
as well.  For either ICANN or the IGF/IGC the need for
also sending out the special pens would be required, but
that would seem to be a minor expense accordingly.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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