A revolutionary new protocol called 3ballot was introduced in September 2006
by MIT's Turing-award-winning cryptographer Ron Rivest. It accomplishes the
seemingly incompatible goals of
1. Each voter's vote is secret, preventing vote-selling and coercion.
2. Each voter can verify that his vote
Sounds interesting, can you post a link to Rivest's original paper on
this? Or at least a Bibliographical entry on what journal it was published
in?
Brian Olson
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Nevermind, google shall provide, this must be it:
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVotingSystem.pdf
Brian Olson
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One way of ensuring (for approval anyway) that only valid ballots are cast would be to give each voter 4 ballots for each candidate, 2 ballots marked FOR and 2 marked AGAINST. The marks that indicate which are on one side of the ballots.
The voter goes into a private area and folds the ballots
I'm not sure about rankings, but Warren's extension to ratings is neat and
straightforward.
Rivest mentions that his three ballot checker machine would have to
enforce the single-vote plurality rules as an extra check that could just
be removed, losing nothing of the benefits of three-ballot.
