IP: Re: A web site of Brian Reids ICANN election experience

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
>cc: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>, farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Re: IP: A web site of Brian Reids ICANN election experience
>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 07:24:13 -0700
>From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>
> > I don't understand what that statement has to do with this matter.
>
>A comment on the need for understanding of what might be a complex
>process. People unable to understand the voting process without help
>need to be able to vote, too.
>
>I think, upon reflection, that what went wrong here is that I had no
>confidence at all that the election was being run sensibly, and that I
>was afraid of violating some hidden rule. ICANN is well known for
>duplicity and secrecy, and I had no confidence that election.com would
>be properly implementing any well-known voting algorithm.
>
>I appreciate your patient explanations of things. If this business of
>electronic voting is ever going to become part of society, then people
>need to have confidence that their understanding of the election
>process is correct. This confidence comes from a combination of voter
>education and slow experience with the reliability and stability of the
>institutions running the vote.