Selecting bottom-tier proxies by secret ballot sure seems like a messy
problem. Depending on the problem definition (the requirements), I'm
not confident that there is a solution.
For those that want to try to find a solution, I offer the following
paper as inspiration:
www.votegrity.com
Secret
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 05:30 AM 3/9/2006, Raphael Ryan wrote:
>>Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[description o
At 05:30 AM 3/9/2006, Raphael Ryan wrote:
>Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[description of standard secret-ballot procedure]
>
>Is this not inconsistant with the following ?
>
> >But with direct democracy using delegable proxy, you can have your
> >cake and eat it too. If you most a
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Just to be sure, let me state more precisely what I think is a necessary
>>degree of secrecy: *Nobody* but me must know whether I voted, what I
>>voted, whether I named a proxy, and who the proxy is. I don't see how
>>this can be done in an easy way!