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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] voting process
  • Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:55:47 -0600

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Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Feb 10, Sergey A. Lipnevich [sergey AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
>> David Kowis wrote:
>>> The vote collector is trusted to fix the vote, and then republish the
>>> results. The results are a list
>>> 1: y
>>> 2: n
>>> 3: y
>>> etc...
>>>
>>> 3 emails the collector, with, "Hey, I voted n!"
>>>
>>> collector fixes 3 and republishes the list.
>>>
>> Well, if I'm the collector and I decide to rig the vote, I will simply
>> disregard private mail like this and fix nothing. You *must* go public
>> if your vote is wrong. I don't think anonymity works without public
>> confirmation of correctly published votes.
>
> It's not this absolute, and it can be dealt with via policy. An example
> policy would be:
>
> - voters cast votes
> - counter publishes the vote
> - someone says "I contest these results"
> - a larger group, perhaps a defined group of a few leads or something,
> looks at the votes and confirms them
> - if this group finds an issue, it is dealt with
> - if this group doesn't find an issue, they say so
> - if the contesting person still contests, *then* we move to a stage where
> people confirm their specific votes, and those who claim a disparity
> would produce their signed receipt of their vote from the counter to
> prove the listed vote isn't theirs
>
> Yes, at some point we perhaps have to publish the vote to resolve a
> contest, but it would be an extreme case. We don't need it for regular
> elections or even basic types of contested votes.

This is what I was going to say, but he said it first, so I'm just going
to throw my support behind this instead of being wordy :)


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