From: r.irvine@ukvoting.org.uk Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management Subject: Committee Election 2000 Result Irregularities Followup-To: uk.net.news.management Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:16:08 GMT Sender: control@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Approved: Charles Lindsey as Deputy Control Message-ID: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 975018163 mail2news:21552 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!serenity.mcc.ac.uk!nessie.mcc.ac.uk!clw.cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 45 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Committee Election Result Irregularities The initial incomplete count was due to the votetakers not receiving all the mail involved; as the forwarding system for the votes was complex a line has to be drawn somewhere. That line is the definitive mailserver, the central ukvoting server, the intitial mailserver in the chain involved. This server has a copy of all the ballots sent to it so it is the logical choice. The votetakers have ensured that all valid ballots have been acked and a count of this will be posted shortly. The ISPs/parties involved are assisting in helping us see where the mail went, but the responsibility is with UKVoting to count the votes correctly and to do that we must apply a point of reference. To this effect the definitive destination of a ballot can only be the initial mailbox the ballot goes to, which is on the UKVoting mailserver. UKVoting can only apologize to the community that the initial count was incorrect and we have implemented measures to ensure that we can spot if any mail is going missing between our or any others' mail servers that are used by a votetaker receiving votes. It will also be possible for a votetaker to retrieve a vote directly from the back end database that holds the ballots at any time during a vote. Robbie Irvine on behalf of UKVoting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOh2W+WOfGXkh8vHZAQFIhAQAnRkTXzcWbDcLraeQeP7yWlhR1T5WlenQ k5i0ye917OrY0cyTE69cWnK/H9ylVhQqgx6RPWVdaJrRKiJil9MnKAJ1+jAFu2np JlcBVyysa7tkZamTOqwLHxTJYPsStAT9hTW07PiGOEiFC4NnW4qjCCvUPWQ16ZL3 CW9wkLt/I+I= =qyWA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- robbie@arrakis.nu <*> robbie@tti-cardtech.com