Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

[Donald E. Eastlake 3rd]

From:  Ed Gerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date:  Sun, 04 Feb 2001 11:43:19 -0800
To:  David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:  William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
            "John R. Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Gerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> The voting apparatus may keep a serial record of each vote, in order, for
>> auditing purposes.
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>No, it MUST not.  See the FEC standards on voting. The FEC standards also
>demand "storage alocation scrambling" in order to avoid even a serial order
>of storage.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a preferential voting system is used
which is voting order depenent.  This requires that all ballots be
numbered so that can be processed in the same order on a recount or
else different results could occur because of the change in order.

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