On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:37 +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
I can't think of a good way of allowing people who are not members to vote without risking allowing people to sabotage the openSUSE elections and vote in someone unsuitable. There are ways to reduce the risk. e.g. multiple rounds of voting; voters approved by members; However, these do not really solve either the problem of a board-elected electorate, or the problem of malicious people influencing the outcome.
I would be interested if anyone can propose a system whereby non-members can also vote.
Some sort of personally identifiable (and verifiable) information could be requested, such as a legal name, phone number, and address. The phone number and address can readily be verified against each other (the number +1 905-XXX-YYYY can be associated with Ontario, Canada for instance), and you can always call it to verify the person on the other end is the person that voted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org