Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/03/2008, Justin Haygood <jhaygood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > 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.

Well you can confirm that a voter is a real person easily enough by
this or other methods, but how do you confirm that they have anything
at all todo with the openSUSE project? It would be like allowing the
entire world to vote in one country's elections.

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Benjamin Weber
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