<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>Most OSMF members are geeks enough to know what a public key is, so from their perspective it might work. But this would require reliable way to verify that the public key itself from authentic source. How would you solve this?</div><div><br></div><div>Jaak</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 24 Jul 2014, at 14:07, Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">The "low tech" solution to this is simply to require anybody who wants<br>to participate in an e-mail vote to supply a public key to the OSMF when<br>they signup, and to required the votes to be signed. IMHO that would be<br>sufficient enough for me to be "the electronic voting system".<br><br>Simon<br><br>Am 24.07.2014 12:51, schrieb Dan S:<br>...<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>I'm generally happy with the lo-fi vote-by-email approach, as long as<br>the OSMF thinks they can run it practically. Someone pointed out that<br>email spoofing is an easy way to break an election. Would this be<br>fixed if all vote emails received a reply to confirm? Would that be<br>practical?<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>osmf-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>