Originally Posted by
EdGrimley
All good points. If this deal get's screwed up, these shortcomings need to be addressed in whatever future organization ends up representing this pilot group.
Another point....and i'll be told by the regime to put on my tin foil hat... without transparency and no way to verify, how do we know DALPA operatives aren't messing with the vote? After all, they have their marching orders. They want it to pass. They want to be able point to the fact it passed as "The majority has spoken" to quiet the heard. How do we know the majority has spoken? How do we know there hasn't been vote tampering? The handful of guys conducting the vote already think they know better than the minions what is good for the minions. There's a real danger here.
Really great idea was recently proffered to handle that concern. The idea is that when your vote is confirmed, the system generates a random number series that becomes your ID for the vote. When voting ends, all the random ID numbers are generated with their (YES or NO) votes next to the ID. This way, each pilot could look up their vote ID number and make sure it matched, while nobody else could look up how you voted because they wouldn't know your randomly generated ID number.
Of course, that idea will go nowhere in this MEC administration.
Carl