The Great Wall, the Colosseum and Machu Picchu are among the leading contenders to be the new seven wonders of the world as a massive poll enters its final month with votes already cast by more than 50 million people, organisers say. Yeah, and phone-in votes (and an active campiagn) keep no-talents on various reality shows. (http://www.votefortheworst.com/)
So what? As far as I'm concerned, the Colossus of Rhodes has nothing to worry about -- that is, if it was still standing. :-)
... and yet the manager of the DNS can't manage to hold online global elections that would empower At-Large Directors... how pathetic.
Pointless pseudo-petitions of trivial consequence are easy to do. A voting process that's secure, reliable and trusted is very hard to automate. There's a reason why Canada's low-tech pencil-and-paper election process arguably yields more secure -- and less-easily-manipulated -- results than all of the various US flirtations with voting machines. - Evan