On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:47:51AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I didn't quite parse that, so I'm not sure if this is what you were > already proposing, but I wonder if we should just have secret ballots for > all votes.
My bad for my previous non-parsable paragraph. I was proposing something less radical (namely: secret vote for elections + decision by the secretary for all other votes). That was in the spirit of minimizing changes to the Constitution. But upon reflection I think your proposal is just better. Non-secret voting is useful and important for the votes cast by elected representatives (e.g., in parliaments), because it provides accountability. But all GRs in Debian are referendums, where everyone votes for themselves, without having to be accountable to anyone else. So, yeah, I (now) see no point any more in having non-secret votes in Debian. (There's the marginal advantage of verifiability that you point out, but if either DSA or the Secretary are not trusted, we already have a major problem anyway. And both bodies have ways to interfere with voting even today with non-secret votes: ballot stuffing on behalf of inactive accounts, dropping ballots of people who will not verify, etc.) Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . z...@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
