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Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005



On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:18:26 +0100, Matthew Garrett 
<mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> said:

> > If I sign three votes over the course of a day and then send them in
> > reverse order, will the votes that were signed earlier be accepted
> > even if they were sent later?
>
>  Sure. As far as devotee is concerned, the ordering when the
>  ballots were received is the only one that matters.  Since email
>  ordering is not guaranteed, you may wish to wait for devotee's ack is
>  you are firing off multiple ballots.

So any signed vote made public can be used to override any later decision by 
the voter in question by replaying the publicised mail and signature.

Regards, David
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