On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:22:23AM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:50:44AM -0600, (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy wrote: > > > > Paper ballots, folded, and dropped into a large transparent box, is not a > > broken system. It's voting machines, punch cards, etc that are broken. > > I don't recall seeing news pictures of an election in any other western > > democracy where they used machines. > > Surely you jest - where else did the term ballot-stuffing come from?
Perhaps you can elaborate on how ballot-stuffing is done without the co-operation of most of the people overseeing a polling place. > The key, imho, is >=2 independent means of counting the votes. Online, > as each vote is cast, and a paper trail, for later reconciliation. > It's hard for both to be skewed by the same amount, and differences > will both raise suspicion and give an order of magnitude of the fraud. > That seems to be the direction the experts are heading. What is to prevent the people overseeing a polling place from casting the votes for the dead? They would be recorded properly both ways. Or they could void and re-vote for ordinary voters. Seems there is still a problem unless each eligible voter brings a smart- card, warm finger, eyeball, etc. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 73, E-mail | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Lyn Kennedy webpage | http://home.earthlink.net/~lrkn | | K5QWB ICBM | 32.5 North 96.9 West | ---Livin' on an information dirt road a few miles off the superhighway--- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]