[Foundation-l] Voting suffrage criteria (established members should be able to vote)

Nathan nawrich at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 16:13:45 UTC 2008


Ant makes a good point - one way to get around all these technical
requirements is to have people vote as people, not accounts, and membership
is one way to do that. Even if there are legal or other reasons to not have
membership specifically, it is still possible to develop a real person voter
roll. Obviously it raises the bar for voters - while they wouldn't need to
be disclosed to the public, they would need to disclose in some material way
to the Foundation. That's a bit more of a hurdle than an hour with Huggle
(you guys who mention AWB are missing the boat these days), but it isn't
undoable and its not obviously unreasonable to ask people to register to
vote with a copy of a legal ID. Still open to gaming, of course, but
seemingly less so and no more vulnerable than most other elections.

Nathan


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