See my blog post: http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=66 Challenging the Norms and Standards of Election Administration: Standards for EMBs (Election Management Bodies) Use of the Internet <http://www.ifes.org/files/Clift_Paper_final.pdf> is part of a series of discussion papers in the Election Standards Project <http://www.ifes.org/arc-project.html?projectid=electionstandards> asking for your comments.
From the paper ...
II. Two Proposed Internet-Era Electoral Standards This article contains numerous recommendations, but two key suggestions for information-age electoral standards particularly deserve attention and debate and inform all of the recommendations below: 1. All information produced, compiled, disseminated or disclosed to implement electoral standards must be publicly accessible on the Internet in a standard, authoritative format. 2. Voter privacy must be established to cover all voter actions online (seeking information about political candidates and issues; communicating with family, friends and members of private associations about elections or governance; and voting). Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org