On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 01:15 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
>
> I'm a little uncomfortable with that as it would mean identifying votes 
> with individuals. Not publicly but that information would have to be 
> knowable if membership were tied to voting. 
> What about having retired devs apply for membership annually ?
> The idea here being able to keep individual votes secret.

I see nothing wrong with knowing who did and didn't vote based on a
public membership list/roster. Now knowing their actual vote is a
totally different story and that should be private.

I will have to double check, but I am pretty sure knowing who did and
didn't vote of registered voters, is quite common in any election. Part
of public records, openness and accuracy of election, so on.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation