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Re: Secret Ballots: How Secret



Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 2:45 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:

>> If all the DD who votes A>B reveal the secret code returned by devotee,
>> anybody can check they indeed voted for A, and by doing a substraction
>> conclude that all the other voted for B, thus breaking the anonimity of
>> the vote even for those that kept their vote secret.

> Couldn't any voter for B claim that they did not vote, as long as the
> turnout was less than one hundred Percent?

In the current DPL election anonymity approach, the list of voters is
still published, just detached from their votes.  See, for example:

https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_001_voters.txt

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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