[Foundation-l] Election query

[Aphaia]

Technical aspects can be answered only by Tim Starling, I guess.

As for counting in human factors, once encrypted data are open by
Election Official(s) and sumed up. I am engaging to examine the
authentification of vote and not participating in counting precisely,
and haven't asked Tim the secret key (one cannot release the
information she doesn't know, so I don't want to know the data which I
absolutely need to know), that is all what I can tell you.

Hoping it helps to solve your worrying,

Sincerely,
Kizu Naoko,
Wikimedia Election Committee 2006

On 9/24/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
> I didn't want to ask this actually while voting was open in case anyone
> got worried, but not that voting has closed I'd like to ask something.
>
> How are our votes actually counted and, more importantly, how can we each
> be certain that the votes we made are actually the ones which are being
> counted?
>
> I ask this because of the issues raised in the USA about election fraud
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold#Security_Concerns etc.) and wondered
> whether the same could happen with us, After all, the voting isn't being
> carried out on independent servers it is on Wikimedia servers and,
> presumably, a lot of people have access to those who could do things
> without leaving a trace.
>
> I am *not* meaning imply that anything has been done, but I would very
> much like to know what security voters like myself have that our votes
> have been correctly recorded and tallied.
>
> Alison Wheeler
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