[EM] NYT: Trustworthy voting systems

2004-03-07 Thread Niemzinski
The March 2 Science section of the NY Times had a good article about the cryptographic voting systems devised by Dr. David Chaum and Dr. C. Andrew Neff titled "Did Your Vote Count? New Coded Ballots May Prove It Did". The article presented an overview that explained the process and the overall be

[EM] Condorcet, Weber and Info

2004-03-07 Thread Gervase Lam
About a month ago, I made a brief mention of the fact that the Weber formula can be used to investigate Condorcet methods. I'll use it to look into five cases. (1) 0-info with a voter's utilities being A=1 B=0.75 C=0.5 D=0.25 E=0 As this case is 0-info, the formula to calculate the Weber score