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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2014-2015
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:36:35
Message-Id: 53C7C344.3050905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2014-2015 by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 17/07/14 15:15, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 07/17/14 07:49, hasufell wrote:
3 >> Dirkjan Ochtman:
4 >>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:38 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
5 >>>> Doesn't that make the vote invalid?
6 >>>
7 >>> I don't see why it would. Maybe if voters would have known in advance
8 >>> that their votes might be compromised.
9 >>>
10 >>
11 >> IMO, it doesn't matter if the violation had an effect on the result. It
12 >> matters that there was a violation of procedure.
13 >>
14 >
15 > Unfortunately it does have an effect since council members now know
16 > who voted for them and who didn't and this can make for bad feelings,
17 > impartiality etc. I'm not sure how to deal with this since a re-vote
18 > will not make this knowledge go away. While not a perfect solution,
19 > maybe we should just try to ignore it as much as possible?
20 >
21
22 For what's it worth, I couldn't care less if my voting is public or not,
23 it's nothing personal to anyone, it's only what I think is best for the
24 distribution
25
26 And I hope others feel the same way (even those whom didn't get elected)

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