[Elections] Re: A concrete proposal for registering voters andconducting the elections

[Daniel Vainsencher]

This has the advantages mentioned below. Disadvantages of this proposal 
as I see them, compared to implementing the system proposed on minnow:
1. The voters list is maintained manually. This implies mistakes, 
duplicated work and the usual. The process of gathering them needs to be 
repeated before every vote or at least every so often.
2. The issues and proposals are maintained manually. I expect that this 
will result in the issues and proposals being determined in mailing 
lists, instead of being posted and then adjusted, with all the 
disadvantages of that medium.
3. If this is used as a temporary solution, then it is different enough 
from any permanent solution to create transition pain, and slow down 
adoption of a permanent solution.

Overall, this proposal will allow an election to happen fast, and will 
probably delay the overall process of introducing decentralized decision 
making.

So how about this - we start implementing a system, do all the required 
(non technical) parts related to the elections without specifying how 
voting will take place (just tell people to think of an order), and if 
we see the implementation of a complete voting system is delayed too 
much, fall back on CIVS.

Daniel

Brent Vukmer wrote:
> Seriously though, I'm holding off on commenting in detail on Peter's
> concrete proposal, because I'd like the team to reach a consensus
> about it first.
> 
> 
> On 1/12/06, Brent Vukmer <brent.vukmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to be laid-back here and let Benjamin, Masashi, Daniel or
>>Lex comment first.
>>
>>So I'll stay quiet a bit longer (cough sounds good to me cough)
>>
>>On 1/12/06, Peter Crowther <Peter at ozzard.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>From: [...] Peter Crowther
>>>>Sent: 11 January 2006 23:18
>>>>Subject: [Elections] A concrete proposal for registering
>>>>voters andconducting the elections
>>>
>>>Twenty hours on and no reaction.  That has to be some kind of a record
>>>for something specifying a system that registers candidates, registers
>>>voters and handles the voting process.
>>>
>>>No comments?  Nobody willing to say "I like it", or "I like it, but..."
>>>or "I think it sucks"?  If we don't get *some* dialogue going, we're
>>>going to have real problems if someone decides to challenge any
>>>mechanism we pick.
>>>
>>>		- Peter
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