At 1:36 PM -0800 1/31/2001, Heyman, Michael wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Allen Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Subject: Re: electronic ballots
>> [SNIP much]
>> >
>> > It seems that something like a smartcard would be the best scheme.
>>
>> Not likely. Voting is very different from banking transactions. And
>> issuing smartcards with special software for voting is likely to be
>> prohibitively expensive.
>>
>
>Hmmm, I have a "voter registration card" and I believe that is the case
>across the USA. Current smartcards are not very protective of their private
>data and I think the security requirements for vote-only cards would be even
>less stringent. Finally, those folks at the MIT Media lab are printing
>digital circuits onto plastic using "semiconductor ink".
Which state is that? Are you required to produce the card at the
polls? Voter registration cards usually refer to the form you fill
out when registering to vote. See for example
http://www.lwvmn.org/voting.html#REG There are no voter ID cards in
Massachusetts and weren't in New York when I lived there. I was
under the impression that requiring registered voters to produce
identification at the polls was impermissible in the US.
Arnold Reinhold
