[members-discuss] Request to amend the RIPE NCC Articles of Association

On 24/06/14 15:47, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
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> Well said Nick. One may think that paper ballots are low tech and old 
> fashioned but I still see a point concerning anonymity.

Just as a point of fact, the RIPE NCC doesn't get to see who voted or 
what they voted (and I'm sure you aren't suggesting this).

If you outsource anything there is always a degree of trust involved. We 
looked at the costs of doing this in-house and it just wasn't 
economical. In the end we tried to take a middle road of allowing 
electronic voting to expand the franchise as far as possible, but 
retaining paper balloting and proxies for those really concerned about 
privacy.

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> As far as I remember from what Fergal sais, all the paper ballots are 
> converted to e-votes anyway.

Yes, indeed, but there is no privacy lost in the process.

All the best

Nigel