In message <369EA957.4888A6E6@iciiu.org>, Michael Sondow writes:
> I spoke today with Kenneth Egger, the VP in charge of Internet
> methodology at the American Arbitration Association. Here is the
> gist of what he told me:
Thanks.
> 4) The most important and difficult task, according to Mr. Egger, is
> the authentication of the identity of the voters, in particular the
> legal identity of their name with a postal address. I suggested that
> this might be replaced by digital authentication procedures;
> Mr. Egger remained skeptical. (There was not much problem in the
> previous cases of online voting because all the members were known.)
I do not think this is a problem if we have a documented poll that we
publish. ANyone can then take the result at it's face value.
> Mr. Egger suggested that perhaps the postal service could be used
> for identity checking, but then why not use it for voting as well?
I'd like to see the US postal service try and check me out :-)-O
> 5) I explained that there was a very great time constraint in the
> present situation, and that the DNSO could not possibly write its
> own voting program in so short a space of time. He said that he will
> query the organizations that have already done online voting to see
> if they would "lend" us their programs.
That would be a great idea.
> 6) I asked what A.A.A.'s fees for supervising the procedure would
> be, but he refused to commit himself.
> 7) He should get back to me tomorrow or the next day.
Thanks.
el