Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:52:14AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>      Carping after the event on foundation-list is just harmful to 
>     the goodwill which keeps the committee going.
> 
> The committee will surely generate good will by not being
> unnecessarily bureaucratic.
> 
>     As for adding votes back in by hand afterwards, I can well envisage 
>     some people asking if this was an entirely safe and secure way of 
>     running a ballot.
> 
> People will ask this question no matter what method is used, because
> it is a legitimate question.  So let's look at the answer.
> 
> This would be just as safe and secure as the method that was actually
> used.  If the member sent his vote before the deadline, and responds
> now with his magic token, then you have just as much reason to believe
> it is the right person as you would have had if he had sent the magic
> token with his vote.

Except now the person has to go back and look for the token and
maybe he deleted the email that had the token?  Sounds like extra
work for committee at that point having to deal with these corner
cases with many other votes already in.

How about we give everyone a login on a foundation web server
and then just put the vote in that way?  Sounds really easy and
straight forward.

Anyways, I'd like to thank the committee for all the hard work
they've put in till now.  I think the number of complaints to
the system they put in now has been really minimal and I think we
should continue to use it.  Education goes a long way to solving
such problems.

sri