Re: [election-services] Report and questions from informal meeting with IEEE voting team members

["David Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

John,

Excellent.

I'll notify IEEE folks on this - I'm sure they will be pleased on the
pre-ballot mechanism.

A month at sea in the Arctic I'm sure can change anyones voting
perspectives!

Cheers, DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Borras, John" <John.Borras@legsb.gov.uk>
To: "David Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
Cc: <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:17 AM
Subject: RE: [election-services] Report and questions from informal meeting
with IEEE voting team members


David

This all sounds very encouraging.  The answers to the two questions are:

1.  The link between voter and vote is optional and reflects the differences
globally on this point.  The UK and NZ require the link to be available for
court order proceedings in case of disputes, but elsewhere it is not
allowed.

2.  On the second point about Sweden voting early and changing votes, yes we
have accommodated this through the concept of the pre-ballot box in EML v4.
This was one of the major changes I picked up in the work with the Council
of Europe.  BTW Denmark has the same requirement. Something to do with
fishermen voting before they go off on long periods at sea but being able to
change their vote if they return in time for election day!

Keep up the good work with IEEE.

John



-----Original Message-----
From: David Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: 14 June 2005 04:55
To: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [election-services] Report and questions from informal meeting
with IEEE voting team members


Last Friday I received an impromptu invite to dial-in to the IEEE bi-weekly
discussion calls.

This went very well and folks on the call were very receptive of the OASIS
EML work,
and indeed familiar with the basics of our work.

They asked me some specific Q's though that I did not know all the answers
to, so
if people here can help me out - I will relay those answers back - and keep
this
dialogue going with their group.

The hope is that they may decide to like OASIS EML enough to continue a more
formal link and to reference EMl from their IEEE work.

Here's the questions:

The first one related to being able to tie voting access tag number to the
votes themselves.
I said that this was an optional feature - where tracking was needed - but
this could be
encrypted and locked - so only a court order could divulge this linkage.  On
the other hand
if it was just ballot-ID style tracking (with no direct associative
tagging) - then this
could also be implemented with a simple reference ID tracking in the XML.

Related to this is voting in Sweden.  Apparently (and this was not super
clear) -
Sweden allows early voting - but then if a voter changes their mind and
votes
on election day - then that needs to override their earlier vote.

Keeping track of all that obviously is challenging.  I thought that possibly
the ability to recall of election vote - that exists in EML could some how
be purposed to implement a Swedish voting mechanism?

All thoughts and feedback gratefully relayed!

Thanks, DW



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