Election Data

[Bill Nottingham]

Paul W. Frields (stickster at gmail.com) said: 
> > Debian also makes their election data public, though they use a worse
> > and much more complex Condorcet method, called "Shulze".
> > http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/leader2003_tally.txt
> 
> I don't see a huge problem with this as long as the ballots are
> anonymized.  Vote data is often analyzed for trends and other purposes,
> and with Fedora being an open, transparent project overall, I think this
> request doesn't go counter to our goals.  But I think the Board should
> probably make this decision.

Considering that we didn't actually state before the election that
we would collect, anonymize, and mine the data, I don't think it's
a good idea to do that now.

Bill