Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

петак, 12. септембар 2003. 19:39:42 CEST — Alan Cox написа:
> > Batman wins :-)
>
> Thats a problem.

Okay, sorry about that, I didn't know you dislike Batman.

> I can send 250 emails from registered gnoem subscribers I know wont  
> bother to vote. Nobody else can see that I did this or someone voted  
> as them.
>
> Thats soluble and I support the change, just the semantics need to be
> correct so you cant have either votes from people who didnt vote or
> have people "manufactured". That means sending the keys privately to  
> users and requiring/validating them to vote

Yes, that seems like a good solution to that problem. I was actually  
just pointing out where was the proposed change, and that the change  
itself has nothing to do with validation (validation is neccessary for  
entirely different objectives, like those that you mention, and it's  
independent of whether votes will be public or not).

OTOH, I think it would be possible also to print out all the names of  
the people who did vote (or, who were validated in a way that you  
mention) without connection to their votes, so anyone from community  
could compare the number of votes with the number of those who have  
voted.

Cheers,
Danilo