Major Variola (ret) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-11-25: > Vinny the Votebuyer pays you if you send a picture of your > face adjacent to the committed receipt, even if you can't touch it.
* Voter locks in choice on touch screen. * Paper receipt is printed and shown to voter. * Voter chooses 'great' -> receipt disappears into ballot box Voter chooses 'nope' -> receipt disappears into trash bin / can be taken home as a souvenir. > Since the voting booth is private, no one can see you do this, > even if it were made illegal. (And since phones can store images, > jamming the transmission at the booth doesn't work.) > > You send your picture from the cellphone that took it, along with a paypal > account number as a text message. The intention behind requiring receipts is not to get totally secure voting, but to get oting that is not much more insecure than the current paper process. I assume the 'take pic, show later' attack is also possible against the current system.