Hi All,
At the board meeting on Saturday a valid point was made that currently the
verification process for membership applications doesn't really prove a
barrier to fraudulent or duplicate applications.
I'd like to look at ways of improving this, so as we aim to expand our
membership numbers we're also making sure fairness is enshrined in a
checking process that means people can only have one vote.
If people pay their membership fee with Paypal, this isn't so much of a
problem, as having a verified paypal account has already required this
person to link their identity to their postal address - but we want to be
as open as possible and so there will be people who give us 'a form and a
fiver'.
What checking processes do we think would be acceptable without being
invasive/onerous? At a basic level, we should be confirming that the
applicant is the named person at the address given.
Please flag up concerns, suggestions for services or resources we can use,
and so on. It may be that we can't completely eliminate the risk of
fraudulent applications, but we can make it more difficult and provide a
measure or reassurance that no individual has more power than any other by
being able to vote twice etc .
Thanks!
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