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 benefits and limitations. Also, the "frog" voting system proposed by Caltech/M.I.T Voting Technical Project is explained. Students at George Washington University are working to program Dr. Chaum's system for a trial student election. Dr. Neff's company, VoteHere, is on the verge of releasing a software version of his system.
Mathematically sophisticated voters, like some of the people in this group, would be needed to verify that no votes were lost or altered during the decryption process. ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through cyberMIND webMAIL webmail.cybermind-usa.net ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info