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

Hi Nick,

Op 24 jun. 2014, om 17:34 heeft Nick Hilliard <nick at netability.ie> het volgende geschreven:

> Thing is, I understand the paper voting model.  It goes like this:
> 
> - get ballot paper, put mark on paper, get paper collected, lock ballot box
> in room, count votes according to prescribed formula in the presence of
> other people, get result.
> 
> At any stage, people can look in on the process and inspect what's happening.
> 
> The evoting model goes like this:
> 
> - identify yourself using email, get authentication token, log on to web
> site, click some buttons, <magic>, get result.

To be honest the current paper voting model probably goes like this:

- get ballot paper, put mark on paper, get paper collected, lock ballot box in room, clicking on some buttons in the presence of other people, <magic>, get result.

So I am not sure how much abandoning the paper ballots would change in terms of understanding the whole process. Keeping the paper ballots does add an extra layer of anonymity for the people in the room even if BigPulse messes up (I do hope they generate random auth tokens and don't just MD5 the membership number or the LIR RegID like https://medium.com/@vijayp/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a1). I personally wouldn't mind if we go to all-electronic voting.

Cheers,
Sander