On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Bryen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:04 -0500, Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 23:42 +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
To prevent fraud I think it's enough to forbid a person to register twice as a voter or to give access to the account to other persons in the terms of service. Of course technically it's possible to do that, but if somebody is trying to affect results of a vote this has to be done in such a massive way, that it's probably not too hard to detect that and to deactivate fraudulent accounts. I also don't think it's very likely that somebody tries to affect elections this way, as without the backing by the community being in the board isn't associated with any particular power or benefit.
Is it possible to implement a system by which the election software registers your IP address, so e.g.: if you have an account and vote once, it logs your IP address so if you log out on to another account, but you're still using the same IP address, it won't let you vote?
If not, the idea of allowing those who members confirm to vote is the next best alternative IMHO.
Voting by restricting to a single IP address would exclude anyone who works for the same company behind a NAT, a husband and wife (both ardent supporters of openSUSE) at home behind a NAT, and so on...
It also doesn't block anyone who wants to vote from home & work, or uses TOR to spoof different IPs, or has any other method of using multiple IPs... IP addresses aren't very reliable as a way to validate identity or uniqueness. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org