Re:proposed constitution and NEW: proposed voting procedure
> While I agree that the tally should not be revealed (to whom?) during the
> period of voting, I don't understand how it matters when, in that period,
Why bother tallying until all votes are cast or the voting period is over?
> issue, as I am always willing to state my opinion in public ;-), but I can
> see why some, with more private views, might feel the need for a secret
> ballot.
We could include a field in the ballot for "Release this information" and
after votes are counted those who'd like their votes released could have
them posted.
> As for "validating" the voting results, and keeping the interrumn count
> secret, we should be able to deal with this in software. We would need a
> proceedure that would collect the votes in an area we all agree is "safe"
> and let the software "secure" the votes until the voting period ends; at
How's about a developer-vote@lists.debian.org ... require each
maintainer to mail a pgp-encrypted voting ballot (ballot rather like the
Usenet voting ballot). Whatever script is the recipient of the
mailinglist can (once a day or whatever) compare incoming mails to the
developer keyring, put all the acceptable ballots (those matching an
entry in the Debian keyring) in an "accepted ballots" bin (discarding or
bouncing those that don't match any developer's keys), and at the end
of the voting period it simply counts the ballots. This way:
1) Developers could change their votes, assuming the voting period has not
ended, by simply sending a new ballot, and the script could discard
any previous ballots from that pgpkey.
2) There's no tallying done until the voting period ends, and hence no
intermediate results to worry about posting.
3) No person has to ever "touch" the ballots ... the Project Secretary
could simply run a "close-voting-period" script and have the relevant
information output to text/html/sgml/whatever.
Will
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