On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote: > The poll system was put out for review, and work on it is complete ... > there is no engineering effort available to make any more changes
The new poll implementation was spec'd out, designed and implemented completely behind closed doors. When y'all deemed it complete, you put it out for a shortened "public review" right before a major election, and now, just as the community is getting its first real experiences with it and /before/ that election has even started, you are saying you won't deal with any problems encountered during the rollout? What arrogance! "Take it or leave it". Sheeesh! A quick google(voting system requirements) gives the following as the first link: http://www.thebell.net/papers/vote-req.pdf ...if perfect clerks would conduct an election using paper-ballots, this would provide the best model we have for a public election. Such an election would be, for example: anonymous (avoiding collusion, coercion), secret (all cast votes are unknown until the election ends) and yet correct (all votes are counted) and honest (no one can vote twice or change the vote of another), oftentimes also complete (all voters must either vote or justify absence). In such a system, if we know the voter (e.g., in voter registration) we cannot know the vote and if we know the vote (e.g., in tallying) we cannot know the voter. After an election, all votes and all voters are publicly known ? but their connection is both unprovable and unknown. I couldn't have said it better myself. The current poll.os.o system certainly does anonymous and secret, and can be presumed to be correct and honest, but fails on being complete. Note again the final sentence: * After an election, all votes and all voters are publicly known* Please add this requirement. -John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20100305/3a8a9614/attachment.html>
