Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Justin Haygood <jhaygood@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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