[Air-l] Intl Electoral Standards and the Internet - Discussion Paper for Comment

[Steven Clift]

See my blog post:
http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=66

Challenging the Norms and Standards of Election Administration:
Standards for EMBs (Election Management Bodies) Use of the Internet
<http://www.ifes.org/files/Clift_Paper_final.pdf> is part of a series of
discussion papers in the Election Standards Project
<http://www.ifes.org/arc-project.html?projectid=electionstandards>
asking for your comments.

>From the paper ...

II. Two Proposed Internet-Era Electoral Standards

This article contains numerous recommendations, but two key suggestions
for information-age electoral standards particularly deserve attention
and debate and inform all of the recommendations below: 

1. All information produced, compiled, disseminated or disclosed to
implement electoral standards must be publicly accessible on the
Internet in a standard, authoritative format. 

2. Voter privacy must be established to cover all voter actions online
(seeking information about political candidates and issues;
communicating with family, friends and members of private associations
about elections or governance; and voting). 



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