Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

[Miles Lane <miles lane attbi com>]

A rather blatantly obvious (to me) approach would be to do this:

DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE!  >>> Unique ID = 6gf89sdufgsg8u9wej8r <<<
Candidate foobar1
Candidate foobar2
Candidate foobar3
Candidate foobarN

Sheesh, what would be the big deal of adding the votes of the folks
who didn't send in their votes with the ID number?  Do we really
all believe people are trying to subvert the election process?

	Miles

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:14  AM, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le 02 Dec 2002 21:16:07 -0800, Miles Lane a ecrit :
>
> > Dang it.  That bit about the validation token was easy to miss.
> > I guess my vote was invalidated and that sorta sucks.  I don't
> > think my vote would have changed any outcomes, but I still think
> > that ballots submitted without a token should have resulted in
> > an immediate query to the sender. I would have corrected that
> > bit and resubmitted my ballot.
>
> We're sorry about this. I thought the instructions were pretty clear
> about that, but maybe it was not the case.
>
> The problem with sending an 'immediate query' to voters who forgot the
> validation token is that it would have happened too late : the 
> committee
> is not subscribed to the vote mailing-list and does not receive the
> ballots. For this reason, we verify that the ballots are valid only
> after the end of the votes (and thus, you would have not been able to
> vote again).
>
> There's an exception for that, when the reminder ballot is sent to
> people who did not vote yet: to send the reminder ballot, the scripts
> that counts the votes is used and people who have submitted an invalid
> ballot are considered as if they did not vote. So they receive a second
> ballot.
>
> The committee will be pleased to hear any suggestion that may improve
> this process for the next elections.
>
> Vincent
>
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