Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-27 Thread Ed Gerck
Anonymous wrote: There is a wide variation in the amount of validation done at polling places. In the local region none of this is done; you are asked to sign, bug your signature is not checked. No ID is required, and observers from political parties are not present. In California, the

Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-24 Thread John R Levine
Did any of you see this http://www.votehere.net/content/Products.asp#InternetVotingSystems that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#? It looked like the idea for this part was to prevent double voting, plus make sure that only authorized people could vote.

Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-24 Thread Ed Gerck
Anonymous wrote: Ed Gerck wrote: Did any of you see this http://www.votehere.net/content/Products.asp#InternetVotingSystems that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#? It looked like the idea for this part was to prevent double voting, plus make sure that

Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-24 Thread Anonymous
John R. Levine writes, quoting others: Did any of you see this http://www.votehere.net/content/Products.asp#InternetVotingSystems that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#? It looked like the idea for this part was to prevent double voting, plus make

Re: snake-oil voting? voter authentication

1999-09-24 Thread David Honig
At 11:18 PM 9/23/99 -0700, Ed Gerck wrote: that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#? It looked like the idea for this part was to prevent double voting, plus make sure that only authorized people could vote. It The disconnect here is that it does not make

Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-24 Thread John R Levine
It seems clear that the system is primarily oriented towards preventing fraud by election officials and those involved in setting up the electronic voting. Historically, this is the greater danger in election fraud. Stuffing the ballot box is much easier if you are the one in charge of

Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-23 Thread James Robertson
At 15:20 23/09/1999 , Ed Gerck wrote: List: Did any of you see this http://www.votehere.net/content/Products.asp#InternetVotingSystems that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#? And, by the contents of ... an email msg sent to him/her/it? What about the privacy

Re: snake-oil voting?

1999-09-23 Thread Anonymous
Did any of you see this http://www.votehere.net/content/Products.asp#InternetVotingSystems that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#? It looked like the idea for this part was to prevent double voting, plus make sure that only authorized people could vote. It