Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

петак, 12. септембар 2003. 18:15:36 CEST — James Henstridge написа:
> So that the voting keys can't be guessed (ie. if my voting key was
> 0042, I might be able to guess that 0043 is also a legal voting key  
> and make a second vote).

Correct me if I got this wrong, but the votes will be sent to an  
address that is *not* public.

So, whoever is collecting votes would be able to establish "identity"  
through both e-mail and the "key" (if someone sends a couple of  
completely different votes, it would be easy to suspect fraud).

When the results are published, instead of eg.

James Henstridge voted for:
Bla, bla, bla...

There will be:

Voter with ID has voted for:
Bla bla bla...

So, you will be able to check if *your* vote was correct, but noone  
else would know that it was your vote.


That's how I got this thing -- not to provide authentication, but to  
provide anonimity.


Cheers,
Danilo