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I agree with you 100% Monty.


On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 6:58pm, "Monty Taylor" <mordred at inaugust.com> said:

> 
> 
> On 08/01/2012 05:47 PM, Eric Windisch wrote:
>>>
>>> That's, you know campaigning. It doesn't involve collusion to elect
>>> a board of 8 other people. For them to send an email:
>>
>> Yes, I agree. I may not have been clear enough. My point was that
>> collusion isn't even necessary for HP or Rackspace to benefit from
>> their power of vote.
>>
> 
> Fair point. I suppose I don't accept the assumption that Rackspace or HP
> _have_ a power of vote. They only have employees, all of whom are free
> to individually chose whoever they want to.
> 
> Now, that we may have blocks of fake people (even if they are real) so
> that non-involved employees can be used to attempt to swing an election
> in a particular manner is a theoretically troublesome issues.
> 
> However, it turns out that we're just talking about vote tampering, and
> in a system where we have election monitors to validate the vote, that's
> not that hard to deal with - especially in a voting system such as what
> we're looking for.
> 
> Turns out, in any given population, one would expect an amount of
> variance in the vote. If 350 from HP all ranked their top 8 candidates
> exactly the same, I think a little bit of data mining would show that to
> be the case. In our case, we happen to have some very smart (and very
> pedantic) people working as election monitors. So I'm betting that they
> will enjoy looking for such things.
> 
> It's also possible that I believe in strong free will more than other
> people ...
> 
> Monty
> 
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