Yes, I think that a disclosure up front would be appropriate, perhaps when someone first access the SecurePoll interface.
By the way, my understanding is that the practice of generating a public list of voters who cast ballots, while keeping the nature of their votes private, is relatively common in election processes in general. In the United States, political parties use this information for their "get out the vote" campaigns so that they know which of their likely supporters have yet to vote. Pine On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > That's great! I'm not complaining about the list of voters being made > public (I actually support this!). I'm just pointing out that this wasn't > made clear when votes were being cast. Something to improve next time > around? > > Thanks, > Mike > > > On 3 Jun 2015, at 23:31, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > There's been a publicly viewable list of voters for every SecurePoll > based > > election or vote since the time of its creation. Until 2013, BoT voter > > lists were usually available for several months after the election, until > > the external host cleared them off (usually just before the next > > election). The voter lists for English Wikipedia's arbitration committee > > elections going back to 2009 are still available. The 2013 WMF elections > > (BoT, FDC, FDC ombud on a single ballot) continue to be publicly viewable > > on votewiki. There may have been other project-specific uses of which > I'm > > not aware. > > > > Risker/Anne > > > > > > > > On 3 June 2015 at 18:14, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > > > >> > >>> At the link, you can find > >>> List votes: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections 2015 > >>> https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/512 > >> > >> I personally don't mind it being made public that I voted in this > >> election, but this really is something that voters should be clearly > >> informed about when they place their votes! > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Mike > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
