Re: [ga] Re: A Question for the Candidates

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Barbara, John and all former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,

  Even more frequently publicly held companies board elections by
stock holders is done via evoting systems of one kind or another.
This is simply more cost effective and safer for the stock holders
voting their shares.  I personally have done this many times.

Barbara Simons wrote:

> I agree that corporate elections take place on a regular basis with little
> to no difficulty.  Frequently, they have paper ballots, and they are rarely
> contentious.  If there were a high stakes election with large numbers of
> supporters on both sides and a significant number of votes that were cast
> via computer with no paper ballot backup, then you might start seeing some
> real dissension.  Under the scenario that I describe, there would be no way
> for the winners to prove that they won fair and square, if indeed they did,
> and there would be no way for the losers to convince themselves that they
> had actually lost - especially in a close election.
>
> However, I am much more concerned about governmental elections where the
> stakes frequently are high and people could well be motivated to attempt to
> steal the election.  As I mentioned, the Senatorial race in Georgia in 2002
> resulted in a major upset that contradicted both opinion and exit polls.
> The entire state used computerized voting machines with no backup.
> Consequently, there is no way of knowing whether or not that election was
> stolen.
>
> Please read the material on David Dill's webpage, especially the FAQ, which
> is not long and can be found at http://verify.stanford.edu/EVOTE/faq.html.
>
> Regards,
> Barbara
>
> On 3/12/03 12:34 PM, "John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > For the purpose of board elections, every publically-traded company in the
> > United States manages to conduct elections which involve the voting of
> > millions of shares of stock owned by people all over the world, and they
> > manage to do so without tremendous difficulty because the concerns in such
> > board elections are not the same as those of political elections in Santa
> > Clara County.
> >
> > The idea that a corporation cannot have a simple distributed voting mechanism
> > for electing board members flies in the face of the reality of corporate
> > elections which are conducted all of the time without any significant
> > problems whatsoever.  There is no need to reinvent the wheel here.
> >
> > Do multinational corporations conduct large scale elections?  Yes.  All of
> > the time.  And without incident.

Regards,

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