Election Data

[CLAY S]

I addressed this point in the paragraph that preceded the one you quoted
here.  Maybe not convincingly, but it was addressed.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 17:18, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:29 AM, CLAY S <clay at brokenladder.com> wrote:
> > Let me first thank you all for your input on this.
> >
>
> > Some people have countered that in public governmental elections, data is
> > not might public.  This is incorrect.  Many cities publish anonymous
> ballot
> > results online.  Here in my home of San Francisco, for instance. (And of
> > course, just because the government does something in their election
> > process, that doesn't mean it's right - just look at the terrible
> plurality
> > voting system that almost all municipalities use.)
> >
>
> The data is only made anonymous for elections after it has been
> advertised via legislation that it will be made so. I would prefer
> that if research is going to be done on voting.. that it is announced
> before the election and what kinds of research and how the data would
> be anonymized is listed and approved before it is done so. This way
> people are aware of the data being used for research AND that the
> method for anonymizing has been publically looked at to make sure it
> really anonymizes the data versus rot12's the ip addresses and account
> names ;).
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
> How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
> in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
>
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