[pp.int.general] Agora Voting System for a Liquid Democracy at FOSDEM

[Jay Emerson]

Since I have 24 alerts on this I'll give my two cents on e-voting:

The problems are accountability and accuracy.  With the ability to hack or
make false accounts to get the determined outcome somebody would want that
isn't what the majority voted for, I'd say that this shouldn't be adopted
for extremely important matters, and even the non-important ones can cause
hell later on.

Trolls alone can sway an entire party by camping out in the parties main
line of chatting and because you don't wish to deny free speech yet couldn't
possibly stake out an IRC 24/7 to counter a Trolls claims with facts, you'll
drive yourself and your party nuts in the process.

Then again I don't have an alternative to offer so the choice is yours :-/

Jay Emerson
Administrative Officer
Pirate Party of New York
On Jan 18, 2011 3:41 AM, "Eduardo Robles Elvira" <edulix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Pirates,
>
> A lighting talk about a secure electronic voting system (Agora [1])
> with delegation support will happen at FOSDEM (and given by me).
> FOSDEM is the free and open source software developers' european
> meeting, in Brussels during the 5-6th February this tear [2]. This is
> a project initially created by the Partido de Internet (Spain) whose
> only goal aim is to set up a liquid democracy, but it's free software
> and everyone can join. I encourage anyone interested to go to the
> talk, and we can also discuss the project later if you want [3].
>
> Regards,
> Eduardo.
> --
> [1] http://www.agoraciudadana.org/
> [2] http://www.fosdem.org
> [3] I was going to meet Amelia Andersdotter, but now that I've
> confirmed my assitance to FOSDEM she stopped all answering my
> emails/chat ... so I can only assume she unilaterally cancelled that
> meeting.
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