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

[Jay Emerson]

Ah!  That's scary.  I guess that would work then.

Jay Emerson
Administrative Officer
Pirate Party of New York
On Jan 19, 2011 6:37 PM, "Eduardo Robles Elvira" <edulix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Jay Emerson <jemers2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Well that one is easy: we have electronic identification cards in
> Spain. With them we can authenticate the voters, that they are spanish
> and of legal age. The encrypted votes will be signed with voters'
> DNI-e signature.
>
> One of the things I'm learning here is that people have lots of
> questions. I think I might reserve half of my lighting talk for that.
>
> Regards,
> Eduardo.
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