The Wikipedia relicensing vote is now running; if you've made more than 25 edits to a Wikimedia site, log in and you'll get a voting link at the top of the page. I recommend "Yes". :-)
I just voted; and the final page was as follows:
Thank you for voting.If you wish, you may retain the following receipt as evidence of your vote:
SPID: 6814
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)hQQOAzWmQkC5j9heEBAAuRzInpz0hsj9rsXhoX1uNWr/KHCq4g2lG4X0DWG2GOjC
3COXbvRmQYJFSbx39pSRad0lc9xoPeIuLo/2BmMobZEWoiQ5p5WZeeFNHgJkd5eh
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The usability here is terrible. What does it mean "evidence of your vote"? To whom might I want to prove I voted? Who can decode this? What does it say inside? Can they find out which way I voted? Is that OK? Is it supposed to be a secret ballot?
Posted by gerv at April 15, 2009 7:33 AM | TrackBackAt university, my computer security course covered e-voting. From what I remember, I would guess that the idea is that you can plug this PGP message into a page somewhere and verify that your vote has not been altered. Of course, mere proof of a vote is not proof that it has been counted.
Posted by: Ben Basson at April 15, 2009 8:23 AMWhat i got was even worse :
Instead of the voting page, i got a page with the following friendly message:
Internal errorPosted by: Paul Be. at April 15, 2009 12:31 PM
From Wikimedia Elections
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.