On 21 April 2014 13:59, Will Holcomb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2. If the voting site tracks which identity it gives to which human, the
>> identity is trivially unmasked.
>
> The voting site doesn't have access to the identities, only the identity
> service.

So the voting site who knows real world identities gets a code from
the pseudonym server, and gives the code to the human. The human
redeems the code on the pseudonym server and gets a pseudonym. The two
must collude to unmask the user.

>> That's a lot of trust to place in the voting site.
>
>
> Any sort of electronic voting will have to have some element of trust. You
> can't have a digital poll without someone collecting the votes.

I disagree (on the first part).  Most electronic voting systems aim to
provide vote auditing, by which you can ensure that your vote was
unmodified and included in the total.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems


> I've been trying to figure out if there's a solution possible through doing
> away with the secrecy of the vote. The mechanism for allowing a person to
> avoid unsavory repercussions from their positions could be done by excluding
> identities from consideration.

Alternately, assert there is no way to reveal how you voted, dubbed
'receipt freeness' from the above wikipedia article.

-tom
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