[LINK] evoting systems

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Tom Worthington wrote:
> At 10:23 AM 28/08/2008, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
>> ... What's our collective view on the suitability of e-voting software to
>> capture election votes for organisations, not national governments?  ...
> 
> I vote via the web in ACM and IEEE elections. They use commercial 
> vote conducting companies. I am reasonably happy with the process.
> 
> The IEEE use Survey & Ballot Systems <http://www.gosbs.com/>.
> 
> Australian company which designed the ACT and federal e-voting 
> systems, also do non-government voting systems: 
> <http://www.softimp.com.au/evacs/>.
> 
> Their government voting system is superior to US products, so I 
> assume the corporate version is okay, but I have not tried it. The 
> system is used by the Police Association Victoria, but how much of an 
> endorsement is that? 
> <http://www.softimp.com.au/evacs/News%20Items/news02Jul07.html>. ;-)
> 

I have just run an Residential Body Corporate AGM via Email...in the past, I
have run the AGM  in writing (requesting a written response from each owner by a
deadline) - the act permits an AGM in writing. The advantage/disadvantage of
running it by email is that it can generate more discussion and you do need to
keep to a timeline as minutes (summary of discussions/outcomes of votes) still
have to be produced. I have kept the emails on record. There are only 4 units 2
absentee landlords, one I have never met.

More about Body Corporate/Strata Governance here:
<http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/stratamanagement.shtml>

My experience of  physical AGMs, is the people running the show make a speach, a
few people ask questions and then everyone takes a vote and it is all over for
another year - unless the organisation goes broke!

Electronic Voting/Communication can substantially improve governance of
organisations, however it probably requires a lot more effort from all members
of the organisation to inform themselves and appropriate/enough information and
structure. There is also a balance between decision making and
delegation/election of leaders. In an electronic environment there is
opportunity/perhaps even creates a requirement for continuous
disclosure...monitor a few stocks via the ASX <http://asx.com.au> sometime.

I would like to see a continuous disclosure regime implemented for all
government projects such as the proposed Sydney Metro and the murray darling rescue.

Marghanita
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