Post in London Parks e-Participation & e-Voting & e-Budgeting

Unbelievable.

Mary



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From: <email obscured> [mailto:ukie@groups.dowire.org] On Behalf Of
Tom Steinberg
Sent: 25 November 2008 11:12
To: <email obscured>
Subject: Re: [UKIE-EDem] London Parks e-Participation & e-Voting &
e-Budgeting

Oh my God - are they really serious?

Everyone knows internet votes like this are trivial to rig. Are they
seriously proposing to allow up to half a million to be spent like
this? Anyone in my team could knock up a script to vote with plausible
looking data thousands of times, in about 30 minutes.

Tom

2008/11/25 James Gilmour <jgilmour@globalnet.co.uk>:
> Mayor Boris Johnson calls on Londoners to vote to 'Help a London Park'
Greater London Authority (press release) - London,England,UK
> Londoners can vote to choose which parks get the £400000 simply by logging
on to www.london.gov.uk/parksvote , by text message or by
> postal vote. ...
>
> This MAY encourage participation but it uses an unsophisticated voting
system that might well fail to reflect the voters' real
> wishes and it takes a very unsophisticated approach to budgeting.  Given
some of the budgeting tools that are now in the public
> domain, a much more dynamic approach could have been taken to asking
participants for their views on the allocation of all the money
> available.  But maybe this is a small acorn .......
>
> James
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