On 17/03/2008, Cornelius Schumacher
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.
As we discussed in the meeting, it's not clear at all that it's easy to detect fraudulent accounts: it's pretty trivial to register several accounts in the user directory and to cast a vote with those. In this case we get quite a severely negative scenario, if someone can skew the results of the election so easily (even if it's, say, 10 votes). So we're taking a big risk here -- and dangerously IMO -- if you want to gamble on the idea that it's unlikely for _anyone_ from _anywhere_ to have the idea of inappropriately skewing results. At the moment I prefer the membership only method because it's the simplest and is only really problematic in theory if the board is corrupt and unfairly give out membership in order to further their cause. In fact, this is pretty much the last premise I would ever accept as a possibility in the argument. Perhaps making the membership process even more transparent could help here, and I'd be willing to listen to any ideas about that. I prefer this to the third option mainly because of simplicity, and I'm not totally opposed to it depending on its execution. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org