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Skriven 2013-11-26 10:59:48 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
   Kommentar till text 6648 av Election Coordinator (2:2/20)
Ärende: 2013 FTSC election, preliminary results
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Election Coordinator wrote to All:

 EC> 2013 standing member election preliminary results

 EC> All times in UTC.

 EC> Voting for FTSC membership has come to end. The results are
 EC> preliminary as there is a one week period for reporting
 EC> inconsistencies and filing complaints. If no vote is contested the
 EC> results will become final on Sunday 1 December 2013, 20:00. 

personally speaking:

1. i believe that the entire vote should be thrown out and performed
   again... this time using the nodelist spelling of all nominees so
   as to completely avoid the character set problem seen from more
   than one system trying to use non-ascii characters.

2. specific rules need to be set regarding voting for one's self.
   history aside, fix this problem one way or the other... once and
   for all.

3. specific rules need to be set regarding what constitutes a vote
   and what constitutes a ballot. current wording seems to indicate
   that they are different in some cases and yet the same in other
   cases. recent NAKs were issued based on a vote having already
   been cast yet each ballot contains multiple votes.

4. specific rules need to be set to determine if casting a ballot
   is the same as casting a vote or if the individual entries on
   the ballot are the votes. see #3 above.

5. specific rules need to be set for allowing ballots to be recast
   and under what circumstances they should be allowed or denied
   as well as how many one may cast to correct an error on the
   ballot.

6. specific rules need to be set denoting exactly what is used to
   determine who may cast a ballot, what exactly is used to denote
   who a candidate it, and what methods may be used to show which
   candidate is being indicated in a vote line on the ballot.
   eg: name or node number or both or ballot line number or etc...

7. perhaps a form of secret balloting should be considered with a
   daily public tally being posted OR one tally at the end. one
   form of secret balloting that i'm thinking of is that using a
   password known to the voter which is published as a separate list
   in the tally with a separate list of the voters... in other words
   the tally of votes, the list of voters and the list of secret
   words (used in the subject line of the ballot message) where
   neither list of voters or passwords is in any specific order.

)\/(ark

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