On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Harald Welte wrote:
In Debian elections, everyone eligible for a vote (I presume Debian developers) is a person highly skilled in information technology. In such an exceptional situation, a sufficiently simple and reasonably well-designed/verifiable (and Free Software) electronic/computerized voting system may be acceptable, as every voter can at least to some extent be expected to understand and reproduce the system of couting the votes.
Ironically the Debian voting system was used for years by very skilled IT people before a fatal flaw was found that completely broke the secrecy of the elections in 2012:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00528.html -Timo _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
