Making the ballots secret

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Tue Aug 7 22:31:47 UTC 2007


Previously MJ Ray wrote:
> While trying to find the definition of the multi-winner SPI method for
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, I spotted this little gem in Article Five of
> http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/by-laws which relates to comments I
> made elsewhere:
> 
>   "Ballots concerning election or removal of officers shall be secret
>    ballots."
> 
> At present, ballots are (correctly IMO) described as confidential, not
> secret, on the voting pages like
> https://members.spi-inc.org/vote/election.php?ref=6
> 
> One way they are not secret is that votes seem to be stored on that
> server indefinitely.  Any webmaster of members.spi-inc could see all
> of our past votes back to at least 2004, right?

No, a script is run post-vote that removes the relation between the vote
and the votee.

Wichert.

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