Re: [ga] Proposal for ballot text # 4

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

"Roberto Gaetano" <ploki_xyz@hotmail.com> wrote:

> As for the chances of having USG listening to us and organize a global 
> internet vote, well, if somebody thinks that they will do a rebid just 
> because the GA asks, they might think also that we will have the online vote 
> to award the new contract.
> As for the difficulty of organizing such vote, the objection is moot: if 
> ICANN should be able to do it for the AtLarge elections, why on earth should 
> USG not be able to do it? In fact, they have the knowledge, the financial 
> resources, and all what is needed.
> 
> Comments and seconds welcome.

Roberto,

Every vote is a collective, distributed and costly effort.
Necessary in every democracy.

I would be very happy to have the cost per person
for operations of real votes (i.e. without campaign and debates, 
just logistic of electorate offices), such as the last presidential 
in France, or the last presidential in the USA.

First, votes are decentralized, and there is many electorate offices.
Similar is necessary in electronic one - I do not know how to
run a vote with millions.

Secondly, you have to keep the electorate rolls up to date.
Therefore you need the universal identification of voters
(while we have today an universal numbering and naming,
which permits every planetary dream, it is still far away
from the universal identification of voters).

I do believe that the public representation of Internet users
is necessary, but it is very complex and must rely on
a distributed structure.
That being said, I do volunteer to work on online votes
- it is enormous challenge.

Elisabeth
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