On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Don" == Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > Don> If we make all votes secret we should require that the voting > Don> system used enables voters to validate that their vote was > Don> correctly recorded and tabulated in the final vote count. > > Note that our current constitution does not require this for DPL votes. > Do you think this is important enough to require in the constitution? > I'm guessing yes since you bring it up, but I want to ask explicitly.
Yes. [If there wasn't discussion of replacing e-mail and devotee, I wouldn't bother, since devotee already has this property.] > Don> We should also enable independent tabulation,[1] which you get > Don> automatically when votes are not secret. [Devotee enables this > Don> currently as well, but future non-devotee systems might not.] > > Would you be willing to propose a merge request for these two properties > if you think it is important that we require them in the constitution? I missed that ยง4.2.3 already requires this, though it probably needs to be clarified. Let me work up a merge this. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort. -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111
