[OpenStack Foundation] Status: Certification of Election Results

Soo Choi soosiechoi at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 04:38:25 UTC 2012


Where does this leave us and what are the options?

Cheers,
Soo
On Aug 27, 2012 9:28 PM, "Lloyd Dewolf" <lloydostack at gmail.com> wrote:

> We (Jim Blair, Lloyd Dewolf, and Vincent Untz) serving as the election
> inspectors for the "2012 OpenStack Board Election" with polls closing
> Friday 24 August 2012 17:00 CDT have NOT been able certify the results
> previously posted as "Preliminary results" at the link
> https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=2601EKAFniDP554rVJb9RBxx .
>
> The acting Secretary Jonathan Bryce has been working with the BigPulse
> team all weekend and through today to resolve a discrepancy between
> the Pull Results and the exportable anonymized data. The discrepancy
> was 28 "voters" from the "Preliminary results", and has never affected
> the rankings. BigPulse engineering identified the cause as being
> changing a setting while the polls were open.
>
> The discrepancies between BigPulse engineering's updated Poll Results
> and our own summation scripts applied to the exportable
> comma-separated values (CSV, ie spreadsheet) are now 1 extra "Voter"
> for 7 candidates
>
> Although we have every confidence that all involved parties have acted
> in good faith, and have full confidence that the published ranked
> ordering is accurate, until the results can be "recounted"
> independently, I, Lloyd Dewolf, cannot certify the results.
>
>
> == Background ==
>
> Voters who needed to resubmit their ballot were unable to do so
> because of the combination of settings for weighted voting and
> splitting votes which locked ballots from being changed. This affected
> voters who had shared their link with others as well as voters who had
> a desire to adjust their vote before the poll closed.
>
> Acting Secretary Jonathan Bryce sent BigPulse support an email at
> 10:03am CDT on Monday, August 20.  BigPulse asked for a voting link to
> test, Bryce gave them his and one of their support people called Bryce
> at 10:51am and told Bryce that because we were using weighted voting,
> Bryce should disable the "Allow vote splitting"
> option and it shouldn't affect the outcome. Bryce did that while on
> the phone and verified that the resent links were
> working. There is no audit log for setting changes during a poll.
>
> == Analysis ==
>
> Since the polls closed we have not been able to derive a method to
> duplicate the "Weighted Votes" or "Poll Results" for all candidates
> shown in the "Preliminary results". As per above, the discrepancy was
> originally 28 "voters" from the "Preliminary results", and has never
> affected the rankings.
>
> BigPulse engineering identified that BigPulse support gave acting
> Secretary Jonathan Bryce incorrect advice, and that settings should
> not have been changed once the poll has started.
>
> Although BigPulse engineering has provided updated Poll Results,
> BigPulse engineering has not yet been able to provide results that we
> can duplicate from the exportable anonymized data.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Lloyd Dewolf
>
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