Re: voting

2004-04-21 Thread David Jablon
David Jablon wrote: [...] Where is the privacy problem with Chaum receipts when Ed and others still have the freedom to refuse theirs or throw them away? At 11:43 AM 4/16/04 -0700, Ed Gerck wrote: The privacy, coercion, intimidation, vote selling and election integrity problems begin with

Re: voting

2004-04-21 Thread Ed Gerck
David Jablon wrote: ... *absolute* voter privacy seems like an unobtainable goal, and it should not be used to trump other important goals, like accountability. But it IS assured today by paper ballots. Nothing less should be accepted in electronic systems, otherwise new, easy and silent

Re: voting

2004-04-19 Thread Ed Gerck
Yeoh Yiu wrote: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 'second law' also takes precedence: ballots are always secret, only vote totals are known and are known only after the election ends. You get totals per nation, per state, per county, per riding, per precinct, per polling stion

Re: voting

2004-04-18 Thread Yeoh Yiu
Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Jablon wrote: The 'second law' also takes precedence: ballots are always secret, only vote totals are known and are known only after the election ends. What I see in serious voting system research efforts are attempts to build systems that

RE: voting

2004-04-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Ed Gerck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John Kelsey wrote: At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. I think

Re: voting

2004-04-16 Thread Ed Gerck
David Jablon wrote: I think Ed's criticism is off-target. Where is the privacy problem with Chaum receipts when Ed and others still have the freedom to refuse theirs or throw them away? The privacy, coercion, intimidation, vote selling and election integrity problems begin with giving

Re: voting

2004-04-16 Thread David Jablon
I think Ed's criticism is off-target. Where is the privacy problem with Chaum receipts when Ed and others still have the freedom to refuse theirs or throw them away? It seems a legitimate priority for a voting system to be designed to assure voters that the system is working. What I see in

RE: voting

2004-04-16 Thread Jerrold Leichter
| Currently, voter privacy is absolute in the US and does not depend | even on the will of the courts. For example, there is no way for a | judge to assure that a voter under oath is telling the truth about how | they voted, or not. This effectively protects the secrecy of the ballot | and

RE: voting

2004-04-15 Thread John Kelsey
At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: .. 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. I think the VoteHere scheme and David Chaum's scheme both claim to solve this problem.

RE: voting

2004-04-15 Thread Bill Frantz
One area we are not addressing in voting security is absentee ballots. The use of absentee ballots is rising in US elections, and is even being advocated as a way for individuals to get a printed ballot in jurisdictions which use electronic-only voting machines. Political parties are encouraging

Re: voting

2004-04-15 Thread Ed Gerck
John Kelsey wrote: At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. I think the VoteHere scheme and David Chaum's scheme

Re: voting, KISS, etc. ( social bias)

2004-04-10 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Perry I agree with you on all *except* that you are prejudiced against folks who are not mobile, have immobile dependants, are busy or agoraphobes. In-person voting doesn't resist graveyard voting much better than lining up the meat. One could say that in-person voting rewards those too lazy or

RE: voting

2004-04-10 Thread Jerrold Leichter
| privacy wrote: | [good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted] | | It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded | and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud, | error and incompetence is overwhelming.

RE: voting

2004-04-10 Thread Trei, Peter
privacy wrote: [good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted] It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud, error and incompetence is overwhelming. Cryptographic

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:16 PM 4/8/04 +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: In the second place, it fails for elections with more than two parties running. The casual reference above to representatives on each side betrays this error. Poorly funded third parties cannot provide representatives as easily as

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Perry Metzger writes, on his cryptography list: By the way, I should mention that an important part of such a system is the principle that representatives from the candidates on each side get to oversee the entire process, assuring that the ballot boxes start empty and stay untampered with