Introduction of e-voting as an optional process for election of CA/B Forum Officers

[dzacharo]

The current voting process for CA/B Forum Officers has proven effective throughout the years but has one significant drawback which is the fact that the votes cannot be guaranteed to be 100% confidential.

There are e-voting systems that have been successfully used for election of officers or governing bodies in SDOs and other organizations that provide full anonymity of the votes.

The CA/B Forum has an opportunity to effectively test an e-voting system called "Zeus". Zeus was initially forked from "Helios Voting". It is an open-source project under a GPL v3 license. Here is the initial publication of Helios.

Here are some properties associated with e-voting:

• It requires some administrative overhead to initiate the vote compared to initiating the vote via email
• It provides convenience by tallying all votes but there is some learning curve for Voting Members
• Anonymity of the votes is guaranteed in a cryptographical manner.

After discussion at the F2F#61, there appears to be consensus to amend the Bylaws in section 4.1 and enable the option for e-voting tools like "Zeus" along with the option for the traditional "email" voting. Each CWG and the Forum-level may decide which method to use.

[BenWilson-Mozilla]

Add language to Bylaws that allows voting for officers via another electronic system other than the current one, which is emailing independent third parties.