[pp.int.general] court of arbitration

[Brendan Molloy]

There are simpler, proven systems with less guaranteed anonymity implemented
by the other parties, as has been attested to in this exact thread.

Our system has different goals, to implement a proven system that cannot be
undermined in any statistically-relevant way. It's an ongoing project, and
I'm happy to see it done.

My point is Maxime, there are hundreds of different voting systems available
_now_ that fit the needs of PPI. Consider the fact that remote delegates had
to vote in plain text anyway, in a manner such as:

1. Joe Bloggs
2. Another Guy
3. Insecure Person

So the integrity of the ballot is questionable in the first place. Even with
a delegate present we could not confirm our ballot, so the only real option
is an e-voting option.

2011/3/23 Maxime Rouquet <maxime.rouquet at partipirate.org>

> On 03/23/2011 12:27 PM, Brendan Molloy wrote:
> > It's much more complex than I care to explain (or fully understand for
> > that matter), but we have people who have great expertise in this area
> > working on it, and I would be happy to share it with PPI once it is
> > completed, and put it forward for as much quality assurance as possible.
>
> The problem is that a vote should not rely on "people who have great
> expertise in this area". If such an expert is lying, or wrong, someone
> can fraud.
>
> That is why physical elections with paper are not like electronic voting
> : anybody can check the result of the vote and there is no fraud by
> being present and watching, even without a PhD in cryptographic or
> whatever.
>
> Ěf you can implement such a vote and everybody can understand and see
> why there cannot be fraud, why not. But as far as there are things like
> trusting people like great expertise (or some electronic hardware), this
> is not good, transparent and everything...
>



-- 
Regards,
Brendan Molloy
Pirate Party Australia

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