ubuntu-us-ohio team mailing list archive

[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Stephen Michael Kellat
<skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> The elections remains underway.  Only 2.2% of the eligible electorate
> (meaning people who are part of the Ubuntu Ohio team on Launchpad) have
> voted.  7 or 8 out of over 300 have voted.

== Exacts ==

( Now that I have my logs, updated as of just now )

We have 7 votes logged. 3 out of 7 have been GPG encrypted. Ohio has
exactly 367 members, so the voting population is 1.9%. Ouch.

Reminder, *anyone* can vote for this election.

>
> Burning Circle 9B is now up where we can hear from Paul about the whole
> election process and how it works.  You can find the episode in Ogg
> Vorbis format directly at
> http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/sites/default/files/BC9B.ogg

Sounds great! I love hearing myself talk :)

Seriously, thank you!

>
> Let's walk through the instructions on voting again.  This is mostly
> done at the command line.
>
> STEP 1: curl http://me.pault.ag/paultag.asc | gpg --import
>
> This step download's Paul's public key and imports it into your GPG
> keyring for use in a later step.
>
> STEP 2: sensible-editor vote
>
> This step can be done differently on your own end.  "sensible-editor"
> invokes an editor from the command line of your choice to type the names
> of your choices into a text file that will be named "vote".
>
> STEP 3: cat vote | gpg --encrypt -r B7982329 > vote.asc
>
> This step takes your text file and turns it into a secret ballot only
> able to be opened by Paul.
>
> STEP 4: rm vote
>
> This burns your unsecure copy of your choices.
>
> STEP 5: attach vote.asc in your response
>
> vote.asc is a binary attachment that contains your vote in an encrypted
> format.  Such should be sent to paultag@xxxxxxxxxx.
>
> Your candidates to choose from continue to be:
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> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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> 1. William Chambers
> 2. Patrick Best
> 3. Jon Buckley
> 4. Jacob Peddicord
> 5. Chris Miller
> 6. Stephen Michael Kellat
> 7. Michael Gilbert
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> Good luck and happy voting.
>
> Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS
> Presenter, The Burning Circle
> Head Writer, Erie Looking Productions
> http://erielookingproductions.info
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-Paul

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