[Osmf-talk] Suggestions welcome! | Re: Opavoting - third party integration and scripts

Guillaume Rischard openstreetmap at stereo.lu
Sat Dec 14 13:06:04 UTC 2019


Opavote being hosted elsewhere by independent people who aren't interested in the election is actually a feature, no? If it's in your hands, you could be accused of changing the votes.

> On 12 Dec 2019, at 11:31, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am Do., 12. Dez. 2019 um 07:52 Uhr schrieb Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org>:
>> But you're right. It would be good to have a more privacy preserving 
>> option, a more free software/open source. If you find one, please feel 
>> free to recommend it. 
> 
> 
> I admit this is a quite complex topic. At first glance there seem to be many solutions available, but if you look deeper into it, many are apparently abandoned (not maintained), some seem open at first, but then are based on third party services (e.g. heroku = salesforce), or are just partial solutions. So far I have not found any which would offer all of these features (and maybe I have also missed some requirements, please send a note if this is the case):
> 
> - allow for ranked voting and counting of Single Transferable Vote (STV),
> - are not based on third party services of big corp / could be deployed on own systems
> - source code is available (preferably open license)
> - offer a complete system (backend and frontend with authorization of some kind) for online voting
> - have votes cryptically secured in a way that they cannot be modified later (as far as I can tell, I'm mostly ignorant in this regard).
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
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