Re: Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimity! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:53:21AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> And many people may not voice their opposition since they will be
> repeatedly asked to state their accusations against the board/election
> committee when in fact they are only objecting to the change since it
> may open the election to potential abuses. 

Nobody has yet posted about any abuse that the new system would be vulnerable
that the old system is not vulnerable to.  The anonymous voting as proposed
is equivalent to public voting in case nobody knows each other.  With this in
mind, I don't see how any abuse can be made in such a system that can't be
done in the old one.  The only difference is that in the old one, voter A,
that knows voter B's name can check what how they voted.  How does this help
with 'security' or prevent abuse?  The idea of the the proposal is that
this in fact INVITES abuse rather then PREVENTS it.  Other then the
'relationship' edges in the graph of voters being erased by this proposal,
nothing else is being changed (sorry for the math analogy, can't think
of another way to put it).

George

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George <jirka 5z com>
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