On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2015-04-03 00:13, Greg Stein wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]>
>> 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.
>>
> See r1671014 as a compromise - that way the seed stays the same no matter
> how many times you tally, but cannot be determined beforehand.
>

Good idea. Sure, that works for me!

Thx,
-g

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