Dear Abd ul-Rahman! I wrote: >> ... no person X must know whether or not s/he is a proxy for some >> other person Y, and Y must not have a possibility of proving to X >> that X is Y's proxy. >> ... Is this possible without the use of >> advanced technology like, say, public key cryptography?
To which you replied: > Yes. It's called secret ballot, and it is standard process. Perhaps I'm dumb, but could you please explain how that works? Just to be sure, let me state more precisely what I think is a necessary degree of secrecy: *Nobody* but me must know whether I voted, what I voted, whether I named a proxy, and who the proxy is. I don't see how this can be done in an easy way! Yours, Jobst ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
