Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 11:35:44 +0000 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> On 29-07-2017 09:20, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > On 2017.07.29 10:04, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:03:42 -0400 David Abbott wrote:
> >>> To whom it may concern,
> >>>
> >>> This email contains notifications of the start of the election
> >> period
> >>> for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
> >>>
> >>> Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
> >>>
> >>> Voting Period:
> >>> 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC
> >>
> >> Am I understand correctly that votify --submit $name just
> >> renames .ballot-* to .ballot-*-submitted, so a voter can edit
> >> the ballot file later (but before the deadline) in case they want
> >> to made some adjustments?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Andrew Savchenko
> >>
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > I reccommend against editing  .ballot-*-submitted as edits won't be
> > validated.  This could mean that your vote may not be counted.
> >
> > You are free to tear up your ballot and request a new one at any
> > time.
>
> You can edit the submitted vote, but I would recommend then renaming the
> ballot to .ballot-* and run votify --verify and votify --submit. That
> will catch any mistakes in the ballot.

Yes, that was exactly what I intended to do if there will be a need
for such action.

> As Roy warned, editing the submitted ballot and not validating the final
> ballot, might cause it to be discarded.

Understood, thanks for your answers.

Frankly I though all previous elections that ballot is send to some
external service, so it is uneditable after submission and is kept
locally for reference purposes. So I assumed that I can't change my
preferences after a ballot is submitted, thus I submitted it late
(one ore two days before the deadline).

Now I see that actual implementation is much simpler, so this is a
very good news :)

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko