Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:13:49AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> The point of a secret vote is to make sure vote buying is ineffective,
> since under secret ballots the buyer is unable to verify that the
> voter actually cast the ballot he or she claimed to have cast; and
> that point is preserved even if some of us publish our (real or fake,
> you can't tell) choices.
Eh, the buyer can demand proof, the same proof a voter has to verify his
vote is tallied: ask the secret token. Assuming md5 is a strong hash,
this way a voter can prove his/her ballot if (s)he wishes to publicly
(or privately) show to have voted in a given way.
As far as I know, the real reason is to enable it for people to vote
without worrying to hurt a person (DPL-candidate), for example that one
ranks a friend quite low because one doesn't think he'd make a good DPL.
Voting for people is necessarily a more personal affair than voting for
something more abstract like a GR about the constitution.
--Jeroen
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