[Chapter-delegates] Software for ISOC chapter elections

RYC rYc rycecuador at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 12:33:22 PDT 2023


The best one is https://electionrunner.com/pricing

From 0 usd for 20 voters up to 36 for 300 voters 

No purchases,
No plans
Simple and ready to go

We use all the time and it works great

Isoc Ecuador 

Enviado desde mi iPhone

> El 30 ago. 2023, a la(s) 12:42, Märt Põder via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> escribió:
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> 28.08.23 11:51 Dave Burstein via Chapter-delegates wrote:
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>> Does anyone have experience or suggested alternatives?
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> I have promoted not using a special software, but holding elections the usual way, similar to physical elections with paper ballots and a ballot box.
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> Technically you only need some neutral mechanism to deliver pseudonyms for that kind of election, after that the pseudonymous votes can be cast on any public bulletin board. You can read about it here:
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> * https://gafgaf.infoaed.ee/en/posts/pseudonymous-voting-in-wikimedia/
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> I have written a bulletin board prototype to try out different ways to organise that kind of election, also implementing some basic cryptographic proofs, but usually they are not needed. The prototype is found here:
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> * https://pseudovote.net/
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> I argue that for Internet voting you still have to make an effort to ensure they are democratic. You cannot really pay some amount of money to magically make it democratic, this is a joint effort of the voters and the election commission.
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> This kind of voter education for basic cryptographic protocols of Internet voting I find specifically fitting for the Internet Society chapters. Why not give it a try?
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> I have helped to run this kind of election for example for Estonian Green Party which has about 800 members just to test the concept in that kind of environment and it went well.
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> For ISOC Estonia chapter we have currently used good old paper ballot elections or public voting for the whole board at once.
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> Märt Põder / infoaed.ee | pseudovote.net | isoc.ee | hackest.org
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