[ZF] re: electronic voting application

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Thu Apr 6 10:38:11 EDT 2006


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On 6 Apr 2006, at 15:35, Tres Seaver wrote:
> What if we made it a requirement that all voting members of the
> foundation submit (and keep current) their GPG/PGP public keys with
> their application (fingerprint plus key server URL would do), and then
> that they sign all vote e-mail with that signature?  The secretary  
> could
> then compile a keyring (even make it downloadable from the ZF site!)
> which could be used to validate voting e-mail.
>
> For board votes, this should be *way* more than sufficient (a dozen or
> so members, voting by mail a dozen or so times per year).  The board
> elections would be the only ones which had enough votes to make
> remembering to check the signature at all tedious.

+1

This sounds like a sensible - yet easy to implement - solution. Ans  
the onus to set it up is on the voters, not the voting organizers.  
Installing a GPG/PGP plugin and creating a signature (and sending it  
off to a key server) is not a hard task at all.

jens

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