Re: Verification of votes

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi Richard,

Le vendredi 09 d�mbre 2005 �3:14 -0500, Richard M. Stallman a
�it :
> Using my anonymous token, I can verify that my vote was received and
> recorded as I sent it.  However, I don't see that that actually proves
> anything about the counting of the votes.  I don't think I have a way
> to verify that my votes were _counted_ properly in the overall
> result--or that anyone else's votes were counted properly--or that
> spurious votes were not counted.
> 
> Perhaps this isn't an important issue.  GNOME board elections are not
> as hotly contested as elections for president of the US, and the
> people involved in GNOME are more honest.  I trust you to count the
> ballots correctly.
> 
> But I don't see how it is useful to have an automatic system of
> checking, which does not really check.

I don't really understand the issue.
On http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=2 you can see
all the votes and verify yours.

Are you asking for the same data under another format so that you can
easily count all the votes?

Thanks,

Vincent

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