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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]