RE: [atlarge-discuss] Watchdog members

[Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>]

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.

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