Hi,
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FWIW, I already sent Mathias a private mail about this, as he also
asked this privately :) But this seems to be of general interest, so...
> (...)
> > *Usually* they do not do that during running elections, just short before
> > they start,
> > so you may be out of luck.
>
> If so then I think there is a clear gap in the procedures.
We have actively tried hard *not* to do any updates during the
votes. Modifying the accepted set of keys in this time frame might
lead to devotee being confused regarding the votes it had marked as
valid (or rejected).
> - What about DDs being approved just during the voting period? They should
> clearly be able to vote.
> - What about DDs losing their right during the voting period? Should their
> ballots be valid?
Right. I am aware of both cases (well, of the second; given that key
addition is one of the last steps of an account creation, the first
case is basically impossible). We often did an upload on the day just
before a call for votes (we didn't this time, as we have adopted
during last year a time-based cycle which seems to work well and
reliably; keyring gets updated on the 24-25 every month).
As I said on the private mail: I am set to do the April keyring
upload. If the Secretary acknowledges this will cause no unforseen
effects on the already tallied votes, I see no issues with doing it a
couple of days earlier. But I am not familiar with devotee or other
issues that might rise, and I don't want to break vote processing for
others.
- Gunnar.
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