Re: Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimity! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal



On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:38, George wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:47:18PM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > `which no one but you knows' can't be right. Suppose the keys have been
> > mailed and I did not receive mine. How do I obtain a replacement key?
> 
> Note that this is NO different then current situation.  Currently the key was
> used for authentication if I remember correctly.  So the question is the
> same for the last years method: How do I get a replacement ballot (with the
> key) if I lost it / didn't receive it.
> 
> So it's completely irrelevant to the current discussion.

Well, but it is not. See below.
> 
> Best course of action would be for the voting software to re-send the ballot
> with a new unique key (same counter).  But that's getting quite anal.

So if I want to find out whether my subordinate indeed voted for me, I
send a request from the employee's account for a new key. That yields
the employee's serial number (first 3 digits) that suffice to look up
the vote.

Andreas
> 

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Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>
Taliesin

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