[EM] A quick, dirty, and somewhat obvious method for a secret proxy ballot
Scott Ritchie
scott at open-vote.org
Wed Nov 16 16:00:50 PST 2005
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:57 -0600, Paul Kislanko wrote:
> 2) But the votes BY the proxy MUST be be "public" - at least to the ones who
> delegated their vote to them.
> The reason? If I delegate X as a proxy, it is because I voted for "X's
> proposed ballot configuration". If X's actual ballot is not available for my
> review, then if my alternative loses the election I have no way of knowing
> if it was because a majority didn't like it, or my proxy was lying when she
> said she would vote my preference.
>
If you have a preference, why are you delegating to a proxy?
Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
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