[Osmf-talk] Articles of Association Update 2.0

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 07/24/14 10:46, Roland Ramthun wrote:
> Election secrecy is used to protect against political,
> economical and physical pressure of the voter. It is a method against
> bribery, too (take the money, but vote what you feel).

With a secret election run - as we currently do it - by three
individuals, you only need to exert enough political, economical, or
physical pressure on those three to rig the whole election.

If the vote is public, you need to buy a lot more than three people to
actually make a difference - and you would risk a lot because it would
only take one of them to call you out.

> I would not like to see the already weak level of secrecy we have with
> the OSMF voting further degraded and not just for general reasons, but
> because I can imagine specific situations where e.g. economical
> pressure plays a role for our voters.

A valid argument surely - as long as we make sure that those three who
run the election are not chosen from that segment of members you imagine
to be likely to sell their allegiance!

It's all not terribly important at the moment because there's little to
gain from rigging any of our elections or decisions, but personally I
would feel a lot safer with public votes - you are right in saying that
this would allow would-be vote buyers to control who has voted in their
favour, but I like the fact that at least everyone could then see who
voted for the vote-buyer.

Bye
Frederik

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