As a practical matter, requiring the voter to remember even one bit
is unlikely to fly. If as always there are several races on the
ballot, one bit is not enough, because the coercer can deduce the
bit from the pattern of votes. No voter can be expected to remember
several bits. The resulting uncertainty in the voter's mind, whether
his/her vote had been recorded correctly, would be fatal.
The "last vote" idea begs the question of why the coercer cannot
disable the voter's computer after the coerced vote, until the
deadline has passed, by removing a component or, if it's a cellphone,
simply borrowing it. Or by holding a "voting party" that continues
until the deadline has passed.
Dan's point holds.
Barney Wolff
> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:06:06 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Ray Hirschfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> My point (which I guess my example didn't adequately convey) was that
> even looking over the voter's shoulder the coercer may not be able to
> tell what the vote is, because it depends on a bit in the voter's head
> that s/he can undetectably lie about, and has no way to convince the
> coercer what it is.
