Election Data

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Matt Domsch wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:45:24AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:42 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > Nigel Jones just suggested that we might want to instead provide
> > > anonymized data from the release name voting, which is probably less
> > > controversial since no governance was involved. You might even be able
> > > to make the case that the release name election is more
> > > contentious. ;-)
> > >
> >
> > -1 to giving out ANY election data in any form other than the final
> > result. We didn't say we would distribute this information before people
> > chose to vote, so we don't give it out.
>
> I'm with Seth on this one.
>

Me too, though thats not to say for the next election we couldn't have a
notice explaining we'd be using the data sans user identification for
scientific research.

	-Mike