[members-discuss] Request to amend the RIPE NCC Articles of Association

On 24/06/2014 16:15, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> No idea but I don't trust any company that can't
> also include a plain text body, instead requiring the
> participant to trust more easily phishable vote email

that bit doesn't concern me, tbh.  They make their business run on trust,
so if their trust breaks down, so does their business model.  So probably
they are trustworthy.

Thing is, I understand the paper voting model.  It goes like this:

- get ballot paper, put mark on paper, get paper collected, lock ballot box
in room, count votes according to prescribed formula in the presence of
other people, get result.

At any stage, people can look in on the process and inspect what's happening.

The evoting model goes like this:

- identify yourself using email, get authentication token, log on to web
site, click some buttons, <magic>, get result.

No doubt the magic is the right magic, but I don't understand it.  I'm just
more comfortable with something I understand, both at each point along the
way and in its entirety.  It's not a problem that it's really low tech.
Sometimes that's good if it means we can all understand how it works.

Nick