Election Data

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 00:10:35 UTC 2008


On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:05:56 -0400
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> I'd be very disappointed if we refused to release _anonymised_ vote data
> purely on the basis that we think there might be some nutter out there
> who wouldn't come out from under his table for a few days if we did so.
> 
> I'd prefer to make a concrete proposal about _how_ the data are
> anonymised and precisely what would be released, and then see if anyone
> can actually come up with a _real_ reason not to do that.

I agree here.  I see absolutely no difference in publishing anonymized
votes and publishing other data we've recently taken measures to be
able to anonymize and release.

josh




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