[Osmf-talk] OSMF Articles of Association - Discussion on Revision for 2013 AGM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 06.03.2013 23:33, Henk Hoff wrote:
> First question is: do we want to have a mechanism that prevents a
> possible "buying votes" or "hijacking elections".

I think yes, but "a mechanism" could be very broad.

If, for example, the list of members (at least with name and email) was 
available to all members, then that would IMHO already be a sufficient 
deterrent, because if I signed up 50 of my employees 31 days before the 
election then *someone* will notice the spike, or recognize the names, 
or whatever, and while I would not technically be hindered from ordering 
my 50 employees to vote for me, the risk of public outrage would be too 
big. Even with a secret ballot, a statistical analysis which everyone 
could perform would point in the direction of me having bought the vote.

If, on the other hand, nobody except the OSMF board ever gets to know 
who the members are, then everyone has to simply trust the board, and if 
such a mass-signup suddenly happened then board would be in the 
difficult position of having to decide whether to go public with it or 
remain silent.

I am in favour of the list of members (name, email, signup date) being 
available to at least all other members, and I think that control 
mechanism would be sufficient.

Bye
Frederik

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