I just posted the following short (1900-word) article that might be of interest here, although it is not about how to cast and count ballots but rather about how we might enforce the "one person, one vote" principle in online deliberative forums and prevent ballot stuffing while protecting users' privacy and anonymity.
Sybil Parties: An Offline Foundation for Online Accountability http://www.brynosaurus.com/log/2006/0924-SybilParties.html In short, the only way to have legitimate online deliberation without the risk of people creating many virtual online personas with which to stuff ballot boxes (sybil attacks) is to create some form of strong "one person, one persona" relationship between real users offline and their personas online. The only I see way to do this, in turn, without requiring everybody to use government-issued ID for everything or sign on to a massive centralized PKI scheme that destroys everyone's privacy rights is... well, read the article if it's not obvious already. :) Feedback welcome of course. Thanks, Bryan ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
