Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:30:01 +0100 (CET),
>> Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> said:
> Manoj Srivastava:
>> gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data Encrypted Ballot 1
> Uh, I thank that's me. Does this mean that one cannot cast the
> votes secretly, but must send them unencrypted? Or did I use the
> wrong key (I used your personal key as the recipient)?
My personal key never leaves my non-networked machine; there
is no way that the voting machinery can decrypt that.
Additionally, it would make it much harder for someone
appointed by the project leadership to determine if I was fudging
the vote, or to easily cross check the results.
I suppose we could create a voting key for future elections,
once the last kinks in the vote engine are worked out and debugging
is no longer a top priority (right now, in about 1.5% of balots that
pas the GPG check, my code extracts an incorrectr fingerprint, and
thus the ballot subsequently fails LDPA tests I have to manually
intervene and finagle that (since each step of the voting machinery
is independent, and keeps state on the file system, this is
trivial). I need to debug that, and add facilities to handle a vote
key.
If I am still secretary next year, I'll see what we can do
about that.
Bottom line, so far there is no way to encrypt a ballot, and
encrypting it to my key means it shan't get counted.
manoj
--
The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal
than to kill. Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
Reply to: