On 24/06/14 15:47, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
Well said Nick. One may think that paper ballots are low tech and old fashioned but I still see a point concerning anonymity.
Just as a point of fact, the RIPE NCC doesn't get to see who voted or what they voted (and I'm sure you aren't suggesting this). If you outsource anything there is always a degree of trust involved. We looked at the costs of doing this in-house and it just wasn't economical. In the end we tried to take a middle road of allowing electronic voting to expand the franchise as far as possible, but retaining paper balloting and proxies for those really concerned about privacy.
As far as I remember from what Fergal sais, all the paper ballots are converted to e-votes anyway.
Yes, indeed, but there is no privacy lost in the process. All the best Nigel