On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 10:59:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > * A secret ballot, while contrary to the constitution for GRs, is not > wholly irregular for the project. We use one every year for the DPL > election and the tradeoffs are well-understood. This vote poses an > additional challenge because we haven't been using the verification > method we use for DPL votes from the start of the vote, but I don't > think this is a serious enough issue to be decisive. At worst, we are > extending one-time trust to the Project Secretary that he will > accurately count the votes without normal verification processes in this > one unusual circumstance, and then will immediately return to regular > order to discuss how to handle this going forward.
I fear that devotee will break in various ways changing from a non-secret to a secret in the middle of a vote. But I could remove all processing of the results so far, and then reprocess all the received emails. This would result in getting a new acknowledgement (or error) mail. Kurt