On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 23:06 -0700, CLAY S wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > As a concerned citizen, deeply committed to improving the long term > peace and prosperity of my species, I am requesting *anonymous* ballot > results for your recent score voting elections - purely for scientific > study. It is my sincere belief that such data, however anecdotal it > might be, is the closest we can come to the sort of ballot data we > would see if score voting had been used in political elections, since > the Fedora elections are actually consequential (unlike, say, polls). > > Here are some links which underscore my sense that this issue is > incredibly import for humanity's long-term best interest: > http://rangevoting.org/LivesSaved.html > http://rangevoting.org/RelImport.html > http://rangevoting.org/WorldProblems.html > > This sort of data was made available for the HaikuOS icon selection: > http://rangevoting.org/HaikuIcon.html > > Debian also makes their election data public, though they use a worse > and much more complex Condorcet method, called "Shulze". > http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/leader2003_tally.txt I don't see a huge problem with this as long as the ballots are anonymized. Vote data is often analyzed for trends and other purposes, and with Fedora being an open, transparent project overall, I think this request doesn't go counter to our goals. But I think the Board should probably make this decision. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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