On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 06:57:03PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane spake thusly:

>> Should the situation arise with the current constitution, the
>> secretary can use 7.1.4 to avoid impropriety or we can still
>> formally have the election run by the secretary, but cross-checked
>> by other people. Just have the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] deliver
>> to the secretary and these other people (which can be ensured by
>> DSA). These people can run the same procedure as the secretary and
>> publicly cry foul if the secretary cheated in any way (other than
>> breaking the signature algorithms in OpenPGP). This _does_ require
>> a not too uncooperative secretary, or DSA moving to override him, I
>> suppose.


> (...)

>         Additionally, there are already means of doing an audit that
>  can check any results after the fact;

Only if the secretary hands over the ballots. Which I don't see him
being forced to do by constitutional rule. I'm not intimate with all
the commas of the constitution; can the secretary make a vote "secret
ballot" like the DPL election?

-- 
Lionel


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