On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: >...
> - Set the random seed to actually be random now. Setting it to 0 is just > bad juju and can be reverse engineered to place candidates in such a way > that a tie will always favor candidate X. > I disagree with this change. This now means you/me could run the report and get different results. That is even worse than the extreme likelihood somebody could rig the vote. You could simply look at the result as: the algorithm chose it that way. It happens to use a pseudorandom sequence to make the choice. That decision is *part* of how the algorithm operates, rather than using a true random number. >... Cheers, -g
