I'm a believer in the KISS principle. A ballot that is both machine and human readable and is constructed by machine seems ideal. You enter your votes, a card drops down, you verify it and drop it in a slot. Ideally, the cards would be marked with something like OCR-B so that the correspondence between machine marking and human marking is trivial.
You can't have "hanging chads" or mismarks on optical cards because a machine marks it for you. You can always do a recount, just by running the cards through the reader again. You can prevent ballot stuffing by having representatives of several parties physically present during the handling of the ballot boxes -- just like now. You can verify that the counting mechanisms are working right by manually counting if needed. Complicated systems are the bane of security. Systems like this are simple to understand, simple to audit, simple to guard. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
