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Re: [Membership] [Comment-Mac] Secret ballots



Jonathan and all,

  Good point here as well and an serious concern as well.  I compleatly
agree.

Jonathan Zittrain wrote:

> Kent,
>
> The problem with roll call as I see it is that it permits vote
> buying--"contracts" can be formed with verification that a vote has been
> delivered.  If a secret ballot is used it's much more difficult to buy (or
> coerce, for that matter) votes.  ...JZ
>
> Jon Zittrain
> Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
> zittrain@law.harvard.edu

Regards,

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