A Technical Solution to a Human Problem - The Tech

Source: tech.mit.edu Posted By: Handson 5738 days ago

The only threat “to disrupt the ability to run a timely election” in the latest fiasco from the Undergraduate Association’s Election Commission came from the leaders who decided to fire their computer guy three weeks before he was supposed to start running the elections.

The UA could avoid future messes like this by making more committees do more work to try to adjudicate claims of bias. Or it could preempt many concerns with a simple technical solution: publish the code.

Let students inspect....

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