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*An indirect vote. This vote cannot be used directly, but can be assigned to an '''registered''' not-for-profit organsation, that uses the voting power as decided by the governance of the organisation, thus rendering the identity of the vote holder anonymous. For verification purposes it might be a reasonable requirement that you must be a member of the organisation that you give your voting power to. You may give your vote to only one organisation at a time. You may transfer it to an another organisation or just revoke it. The Burden of proof on the right to use a vote is mostly on the organisation in question. | *An indirect vote. This vote cannot be used directly, but can be assigned to an '''registered''' not-for-profit organsation, that uses the voting power as decided by the governance of the organisation, thus rendering the identity of the vote holder anonymous. For verification purposes it might be a reasonable requirement that you must be a member of the organisation that you give your voting power to. You may give your vote to only one organisation at a time. You may transfer it to an another organisation or just revoke it. The Burden of proof on the right to use a vote is mostly on the organisation in question. | ||
*A direct vote. This is perhaps a little unfair since people who don't have access to computer systems are likely unable to use their direct vote. Burden of proof on authentication is yet to be solved. | *A direct vote. This is perhaps a little unfair since people who don't have access to computer systems are likely unable to use their direct vote. Burden of proof on authentication is yet to be solved. A partial solution could be to divide the direct votes into three distinct groups and let the consumers decide on the amount of trust they place on each group of voters: | ||
#Voters authenticated with cryptographic methods, where the identity of the keyholder is known by an commercial or non-commercial certification authority. | |||
#Voters authenticated by an email address issued by an institutional issuer such as an university, school, company or a governmental organisation ie. where it is publicly known that the postmaster checks the identities of people before issuing an email address | |||
#The rest ie. anonymous email services | |||
Where issue is a disputed article or a campaign on a [[company]], [[product group]] or [[product]] | Where issue is a disputed article or a campaign on a [[company]], [[product group]] or [[product]] |