Secrecy is necessary for real world votes, but here we can afford some openness. It's the wiki way.
Yeah, but voting *isn't* the wiki way.
I agree that the openness is doable... just disagree with the method... anyone could have set up a form and a server script to compile the results, and published those results daily so that we could see the innards... I find arguments against increasing efficiency, without corrupting collegiality, as counterproductive... and certainly will bite WP in the ass if this philosophy carries over into streamlining heavy bandwidth/editing issues, if this project ever *really takes off... ;) -SV