[iaoa-infrastructure] "1-click election" still an option?

[Valter Cavecchia]

Dear all,

This is not a simple thing, there are implementation and timing issues. 
There are also many ways to implement such a procedure. One of the 
simplest, if the purpose is just to bypass the authentication scheme of 
the web server, is the following:

- Make a list of the members who are allowed to vote (some days before 
the vote, as usual)
- Generate a unique token for each user and send them an e-mail message 
containing something like
"If you want to vote go here: 
https://secure.iaoa.org/vote?token=UNIQUETOKEN"
- The user is directed to a voting page, with more or less the same look 
as the old ones.

The advantage doing this way is that a member can vote even if login 
and/or password are unknown. There are cons too, like mail marked as 
spam, user's feeling of something important sent via a not-secure 
channel and the choosing of a perfect timing while sending the e-mail.

We may discuss about this. In the meantime I will write a page informing 
users about what to do when they are not able to login, i.e. something 
more informative then the default error 401 "Authorization Required" page.

Best Regards
   valter


On 7/23/2014 6:11 PM, Frank Loebe wrote:
> Dear Valter,
>
> at some point earlier this year, we had come across the idea of providing
> members with a "1-click-vote" in our ballots/elections (in my understanding,
> quicker access to the personalized voting page than going through membership
> login), in order to raise the degree of participation.
>
> With the EC election in early September in mind, would you think this is
> something that can be set up until then? How exactly would that look like?
> Would it be feasible for ballots with multiple choices (speculating about
> links in emails that represent actual voting values, such that truly one
> click establishes one's vote)? Will you be (too) busy (e.g., with other
> remaining tasks from the website and database relocation in the IAOA context
> itself) to set up anything new until, say, end of August?
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments, ideally before tomorrow at noon (CEST),
> Frank
>
>