[ZF] re: electronic voting application

[Jim Fulton]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 7. April 2006 06:44:20 -0400 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> So will we use a personal address or set up a mailbox?
> 
> 
> It could be both. For the Plone Foundation all votes were usually sent 
> to Paul. A dedicated email address voting at something would do the same job.
> 
>> Who is going
>> to validate the GPG signatures and count the votes?
> 
> 
> Someone :-)  A volunteer..Rob? *hiding*
> 
>> What is
>> involved in validating the signatures?
> 
> 
> At reasonable email client that knows about the keyring with all
> voter pubkeys will tell you if an incoming signed or encrypted email is 
> valid.
> 
>> Who is going to coordinate
>> the necessary web of trust?
> 
> 
> "The volunteer" would have to collect the keys from the ppl. There is of 
> course a possible chance for misuse however I doubt that this is of 
> theoretical nature.

The above sounds like work. Not it!

Jim

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