Re: Making the RMS resolution a Secret Ballot
On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 10:59:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> * A secret ballot, while contrary to the constitution for GRs, is not
> wholly irregular for the project. We use one every year for the DPL
> election and the tradeoffs are well-understood. This vote poses an
> additional challenge because we haven't been using the verification
> method we use for DPL votes from the start of the vote, but I don't
> think this is a serious enough issue to be decisive. At worst, we are
> extending one-time trust to the Project Secretary that he will
> accurately count the votes without normal verification processes in this
> one unusual circumstance, and then will immediately return to regular
> order to discuss how to handle this going forward.
I fear that devotee will break in various ways changing from
a non-secret to a secret in the middle of a vote. But I could
remove all processing of the results so far, and then reprocess
all the received emails. This would result in getting a new
acknowledgement (or error) mail.
Kurt
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