On Wed, 28 May 2003, Joanna Lane wrote:
I believe one of the mistakes being made in this election, is not
forwarding the ballots in their raw state to Watchdogs, instead
stripping them of any ID. This severely restricts the watchdog's ability
to double check the count, or checking ballots against the valid
membership list, and so on. I would say that the watchdogs seem to be
largely a symbolic gesture rather than fulfilling any meaningful role...
...what Joanna said, and...
As someone who in the past was a watchdog (but would not be one now, under
the conditions given us), and knowing the details of the watchdog process,
I again ask the current watchdogs to explain to us, all, exactly what they
are doing, and how that is a meaningful process.