Re: Vote verification --- a futile exercise?
>>"Anthony" == Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
>> 7) No one can determine how another person voted
>>
>> This is obviously not adhered to -- the secretary and DSA receive
>> all the votes as signed plaintext.
Anthony> No one other than the secretary, then.
Any one in the group debvote, or any one with super user
privileges, has access to the raw votes, at this point.
>> You might think that (4) would be detected when the list was
>> released, but it won't because there is no one to _deny_ that
>> vote.
>>
>> Sure there is. Send a signed mail that says "I didn't vote."
Anthony> Who shall do that? Every member of Debian who did not vote?
Anthony> The verification procedure goes something like this, for
Anthony> each developer: Check list. Is my vote (identified by a
Anthony> shared cookie) on it? Is so, is it recorded correctly?
Anthony> Lastly, do I get the same results as the secretary when I
Anthony> tally the votes?
Next, look at the other uid's presented on the list. Check
debian ldap to make sure that these are real developers.
Anthony> The cookies that the secretary made up happen to belong to
Anthony> no developer. But I don't (and can't) know that.
Anthony> Non-existent developers don't send signed messages stating they did
Anthony> not vote. However, with the help of the secretary, they do vote :-(
That can't happen, since people are going to check the list.
Anthony> Unless I've missed something, none of the proposed checks on the vote
Anthony> counter prevent him from casting votes from Mickey Mouse, George
Anthony> W. Bush, and Elvis Presly.
That'll show up on the list of voters published.
manoj
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