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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] voting process
  • Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:53:08 -0600

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Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> David Kowis wrote:
>
>> I don't think so. I think if someone's vote is misrepresented, then
>> they'll make it known. I don't think we need everyone to confirm it.
>>
> You're contradicting yourself here. If a person wants to keep the vote
> private, than raising an issue with misrepresentation is the same as
> disclosing the vote. But remember, s/he is supposedly trying to
> *prevent* this. You're complicating the system (private votes) but add
> no safeguards. If votes are private, than I think ~90% confirmation of
> correct vote is required.
> OTOH, if you don't require a voter to disclose his/her vote but it's
> enough to say "my vote was misrepresented" to discard the whole vote,
> then everyone can use this as a means of throwing away unfavorable outcome.
>

Okay, so they don't tell the entire list that their vote was
misrepresented. Just the vote collector. Problem solved.

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