[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Stephen Hahn]

* John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> [2007-02-05 11:41]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>  You may present a list of
> >>>  the entire slate, or a subset thereof.  (The list is presented in a
> >>>  pre-selected random order.)
> >>>
> >>>  1 - J. Jones (jjones)
> >>>  2 - S. Smith (ssmith)
> >>>  ...
> >>It maybe worth explicitly stating how candidates not listed here are 
> >>viewed in the order of preference (all equally at the very lowest level, 
> >> I assume, but...)
> >
> >  Sorry, I'm a bit slow today:  are you asking about adding some
> >  clarification (or additional help text) to explain how candidates
> >  omitted from a submitted ballot are treated?  Or something about the
> >  displayed list or the balloting prompt?
> 
> Also, I would want to make sure that there are statistical checks in
> the ballot counting routines to detect whether or not the tally aligns
> with the random presentation order, to make sure we can tell if a
> significant number of people simply copy/pasted the list.
 
  Really?  I was merely planning to offer the anonymized ballots as a
  public document, so that anyone could choose to do such analysis...

> I'm not sure what we would do if it turned out that way, but I think
> we need this to understand and validate the voting process itself.

  By the way, I wasn't planning on placing a directly cut-and-paste'able
  form in the ballot--the example would be invalid for the election
  (like numbers starting with 100, or somesuch).  The prompt could be a
  request for an entire list, or we could do something like

	1 - J. Jones (jjones)
	...

	Ballot so far [ssmith ...].  Next selection (enter x when
	complete):

  - Stephen

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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/