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RE: Re: List of nominations for people to sit on the "SPF Leadership Council"

2004-11-15 07:54:31

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Julian Mehnle wrote:

william(at)elan.net [william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net] wrote:
[...] my preference is only count first vote because its email/web
election and we may have cases that people by accident sent [two]
confirmations.

Please pardon me if I'm insistent, but I still do not understand why this
would be a problem. :-)

Its pretty standard practice that re-voting should not be allowed. 
So while if its an accident its not a big deal and we should ignore 
multiple copies its also possible for somebody to change his mind after 
talking to others (especailly bad if it happens in-mass) and possibility
of this and other manipulation schemes should be minimized. And as you 
correctly noted somebody may try technical means to change/invalidate 
somebody elses vote by sending bad extra confirmations and hope that one 
of them is right and gets to be accepted by the system.

--- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net


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