--- Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ps, As to privacy, I read of video-camera phones. Their usage has > to be tricky - can they verify a voter's actual vote as such without > voting machine operation being set up compatible with such? > > ps, quoting: "I doubt there is a voting system in existence that > is immune from enough vote verification to support vote buying or > coercion" The lever machines I have been voting on all my life are > immune, for they keep NONE of the records of interest.
If a voter wants to document how she voted, I was thinking in terms of her taking a short video showing herself, the relevant details of her marked ballot, and her casting that ballot as her vote. Such documentation can certainly be falsified or made to be deceptive. But as long as for most people such countermeasures cost more in time, effort, and expertise than they are worth, such documentation is probably sufficient for a vote buying scheme. It could work regardless of whether she was casting her ballot with pen and paper, an electronic touch screen machine, or a mechanical voting machine. I suppose a voting mechanism could be divised that would resist video documentation, but I doubt it would be sufficiently usable for most people. -- Dave Cary __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
