At 05:51 PM 2/4/01 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
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>David Honig wrote:
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>> If you give people a paper receipt with their votes on it
>> (as WAS's scheme mentions) then their votes can be bought or blackmailed.
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>I'm unaware of how that interpretation might have arisen? I don't see
>anything in the proposed text that calls for a receipt to be given to
>any voter, let alone a copy of their votes?
>From "Ballot Proposal" version 1.3
10 B DISPLAY
(5) Election software shall print the selected choices on a fixed
visible medium (such as paper), and shall require the voter to
affirm those choices prior to electronic registration of the
completed ballot.
I took this to mean that "what the machine thinks the voter chose
is printed on paper" (for feedback/trust reasons). Am I totally off?
I wasn't clear on the architecture you have in mind ---I eventually
figured out that you're requiring an online system with local and
central real time reporting (mirroring) of votes.
(Other architectures include standalone or LAN-only machines acting only as
better voting-acquisition-machines; or a pure central server scheme like
home internet voting.)
.......
"What company did you say you were from, Mr. Hewlett?"
---Walt Disney to Bill Hewlett eetimes 22.01.01 p 32
