Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Election Results for term 2018/2019 - verification of election result needed

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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W dniu pią, 13.07.2018 o godzinie 05∶50 +0000, użytkownik Robin H.
Johnson napisał:
> Point of order: Can the Infra contact for the election please clarify
> the exact time that countify phase was run, because it looks like the
> election was closed the election 20 minutes early.

I don't see any evidence to that.  FWICS, the cronjob was simply running
at :10 and :40, so obviously the last run happened at :40, and it was
closed already at the next iteration of cronjob.  I did not set that
cronjob, I have no clue why it was set to run like that and I was not
informed that I need to account for that.

According to ballot file timestamps, there were two voters who voted
between 23:40 and midnight, and votes of both are present in the master
ballot.  The number of votes collected matches the number of files
present right now.  There are no files created past midnight.

Countify was run at ~6:19 the next morning.

Unless you have a very good reason to suspect that someone went as far
as to create a submitted ballot manually after midnight and change its
timestamp to cover the fact, I don't think we have any reason to
be concerned with the results.  That said, I'm all for improving
the election software to prevent that.

> From previously running Gentoo elections, I KNOW that last-minute votes
> have taken place.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:36:33PM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> > Election: council-201806
> > Timestamp: 2018-07-11 23:40:02 UTC
> > Eligable voters: 183
> > Submitted votes: 82
> > Pending votes: 0
> > Turnout: 44.809%
> > Pending Turnout: 44.809%
> 
> 

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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