On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Glazman < daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > On 02/06/2014 21:06, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > > > I'd be happy to have the pattern data, but not the candidate names - > i.e. anonymize them so we can't figure out who romped in, who scraped in, > and who > > was beaten out by a single vote - or only got 1. > > Then I disagree. Publishing anonymized data is not useful to people > not drastically involved in W3C Process. I suggest then W3M shares > *all* election data with the AB, in full confidentiality. I don't > even know if it's already the case today or not, and that says > something about the opaqueness of our electoral system... > > The AC would get, as I said earlier, number of votes globally and > per candidate and that would be enough IMHO. > > (please note that even if the votes are ballots, the results are > counted per person) > > </Daniel> > > > > I assume that the actual system stores 'ballot' records, I'd like to propose that those are exported anonymously - it is possible to glean slightly more data that way and certainly no more difficult for a reasonably intelligent person to create a 'count' for each candidate even in a simple csv which doesn't provide that directly. I'm reasonably sure that within an hour or so of release, someone will re-post with counts if not provided. Let's not overcomplicate things, just keep it simple :) -- Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
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