[AFS3-std] Second Draft of Standardisation Document

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Buhrmaster, Gary <gtb@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd be comfortable with just flipping a coin.
>
> It is an accepted practice in many US election jurisdictions.
> It is likely to occur rare enough that anything more is
> going to be overkill.
>
>> One way to flip a coin would be to give the position to
>> whoever's MD5 hash of their name lexicographically sorts
>> earlier.  It has the minor potential drawback that the
>> tiebreaker would be known in advance, though.
>
> The MD5 hash of the entire email (including headers) of
> the last person to vote for the specific individuals?
> So if you want to plan to rig the tie breaker for a
> planned tied election, you have to do a lot of work
> (and other than myself, who would even think that devious?)
>

Bah.

Person whose mail came from the lowest IP address gets an extra half vote.

Derrick