[Foundation-l] Elections email

[Sarah]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:38, Shane Simmons <avicennasis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the SecurePoll extension has multiple measures built-in that allow for
> easy sock detection. It captures some data in addition to the username that
> would help eliminate those votes.
>
> On a side note: would a simple check for duplicate emails be possible? I
> received an email for my main and my alt account, which are registered with
> the exact same email address. I'm not sure how the system would decide which
> account gets the email (Perhaps highest edit count?), but I'm sure someone
> could figure out something. :-)
>
I've received two invitations to vote -- also both at the same e-mail
address -- so all I'd have to do now (if it were a user name that
didn't make it obvious it was mine) is go somewhere else to vote. And
given how low the voting requirements are the software must be sending
out multiple invitations to quite a few people.

I can't see how it benefits the project to have multiple accounts
voting that only need to have made 300 edits and 20 recent ones, and a
kind bot that reminds them of all the eligible account names. We're
shooting ourselves in the foot with this, surely.

Sarah