On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:38 +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Justin Haygood <jhaygood@reaktix.com> 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.
Phone numbers aren't a good indicator in this day and age. With people migrating to different places, I often see people who move but keep their old cellphone number for at least 2 years after they've moved. And since more and more people are giving up landlines for cellphones as their personal number, it further prevents validity of location based on area code. Bryen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org