[Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

Sat Jun 7 08:23:19 UTC 2008

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the past information on how many were approved was released.   I
> don't see why the complete decrypted ballots (which contain no
> personal information) couldn't be released.  Especially since we'll
> have ranked data it would be interesting to see how different counting
> systems (IRV, approval of  all ranked, approval of all 1s, etc) might
> have influenced the results... and it's pretty normal for the
> anonymous ballots in an election to be not treated as secret.
>

I think this information would be very, very interesting, so long as it was
obviously completely independent of vote time (i.e. the order is randomized,
not ranked by the order that the votes were made in).  This is a minor thing
to do, but one that might be overlooked.

-- 
[[User:Ral315]]