Election Data
Chris Tyler
chris at tylers.info
Mon Jul 28 17:31:48 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 10:06 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> CLAY S wrote:
> > Considering what's at stake, I believe it is
> > not too unreasonable for the Fedora community to change policy to make
> > future election data available to the public
>
> Really, I'd like this to be put to a vote by Fedora Contributors.
> Because the real question for releasing anonymized election data for the
> future is: will people continue to vote if they know the data will be
> released anonymously.
Perhaps a good solution is to allow participants to opt in on a per-vote
basis: a checkbox that says "I consent to having my anonymized vote
published" could appear right on the vote form. (Vote data should also
be randomly ordered so that time-correlation is not possible).
> I see no reason they wouldn't. But if 25% of our active voters say they
> would not vote if that were the case, then that's something we should
> listen to.
Definitely that the last thing we want to do is reduce our already-low
voter turnout.
-Chris
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