RoyDaine   wrote:

There is one concern regarding sites of this nature and that includes myverdict.net. That is the problem of voter validation.

Until there is an official authority for Internet voting that would give each voter who is in official voter lists a unique digital signature (as it is already implemented in Estonia), the only other way to go to get meaningful voting results is to require detailed voter registration as it is e.g. done in Mike Gravel's online referendum on the National Initiative For Democracy at [votep2.us] (Philadelphia II). This requires a network of volunteers on the ground who verify the information given by a registrant for the online vote, and compare it with the official voter lists. However if you won't do that, nobody will take your online voting results seriously, and all effort in producing them is to a large extent waste of time.

RoyDaine   wrote:

If all site members register their correct identity, along with proof, you have the position where their anonymity is compromised. You have to record who has voted.

There is no need to compromise anonymity. There are various schemes to accommodate simultaneously true voter identity and secret vote. One such scheme has been implemented (by me as WebMaster) in the Voting system on this site. In secret votes in our system the record of each member's vote is stored encrypted using a private password (voting key) that only the voter knows.

Mirek

mk, [democracy.mkolar.org]