On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Eric H. Christensen <sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:50:58PM -0500, inode0 wrote: >> No. In what election where the votes cast are secret is the fact of >> voting public? I can't recall ever participating in such an election >> but maybe my head is full of mud today. I have an expectation that my >> voting behavior is private. > > If you vote in the United States the fact that you did, in fact, vote is public record. *How* you voted is not, however. Ok, now we are getting into a semantic argument for sure. Where I have voted for decades they simply do not have any way to know if I did, in fact, vote. All they know is I showed up to vote. Was the first thing I did in the voting booth click the "I'm Done." button? Did I drop an empty ballot into the box on my way out the door? Only I know. You can conclude from registration records most places that someone did not vote for some period of time but I don't see how one can really conclude that anyone in particular did vote if the votes are cast in secret. Of course, if choosing to not vote at the polling station is considered voting then, yeah, you know I "voted." Fedora has treated my voting behavior as private so far. If Fedora has respected my privacy to a greater degree than the various governments running other elections I have been involved in then I say good for Fedora. Now I am going to click the "I'm Done." button on this. John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
