[thelist] Online Voting and Elections

Eduardo Kienetz eduardok at gmail.com
Sun May 6 00:30:29 CDT 2007


On 5/5/07, Rikter Support <support at rikter.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Does anyone use or know of a good online voting and election service?  We're
> looking for a hosted solution that offers both online voting and a telephone
> voting option.
>
> Using G$ to search on this subject has been fairly problematic ---mostly
> spam/bot results and useless sites.  Yahoo slightly better, but still
> hundreds of sites with difficult to find information.
>
> We're simply looking for:
>
> * Security
> * Web-based interface
> * Ability to handle about 5,000 voters.
> * Ability to work in both IE and Firefox---and possibly Safari if possible.
>
> It's an Board of Directors election for a large organization.  Any past
> experiences and/or horror stories with online voting services would be
> appreciated!

Personally I wouldn't rely on anything not PKI-based (Public Key
Infrastructure).

Regards,

-- 
Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz
Sysadmin/Developer
http://www.noticiaslinux.com.br/eduardo/



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