As Shane said, there are built-in features in the SecurePoll software that help us to control for sockpuppeting, so we are pretty safe. Sockpuppeting in a large enough scale to influence an election of this size would also be very difficult to pull through, and practically impossible to do undetected.
2011/6/11, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com>: >> On 10 June 2011 22:19, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've received two invitations to vote -- also both at the same e-mail >>> address -- so all I'd have to do now (if it were a user name that >>> didn't make it obvious it was mine) is go somewhere else to vote. And >>> given how low the voting requirements are the software must be sending >>> out multiple invitations to quite a few people. >>> >>> I can't see how it benefits the project to have multiple accounts >>> voting that only need to have made 300 edits and 20 recent ones, and a >>> kind bot that reminds them of all the eligible account names. We're >>> shooting ourselves in the foot with this, surely. >>> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 15:29, Thomas Morton > <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Perhaps. Although with that said nearly 1000 people have voted today - >> compared to between 100-200 on the previous days (excepting the 29th, >> first >> day, which had about 600-800). So it's a case of; is the risk worth the >> reward? >> > It's more than a risk, though, it's a certainty that the software is > inviting multiple alternate/sock accounts to vote. And there's no way > of knowing what the percentage is. So the cost/benefit can't be > addressed, because we have no figures. > > Sarah > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
