Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Evgeny Pinchuk wrote:
> > Even an eye?! What are you gonna do, poke someone's eye out? :P

I'm just wondering if I'm missing something obvious here: why should the
identification process be part of the voting process? In the manual voting, the
two are separate - first you are identified and checked for uniqueness by the
ballot committee, then you go behind the curtain and vote.

If what stands behind the curtain is a voting machine, rather than a box with
bits of paper, then it's electronic voting. The identification issue is
different. Of course, there are still issues: you record the votes in random
order so they cannot be identified with the order of visitors in the ballot.
You have to make sure that each visitor only gets one chance to press the
button. The source has to be made available to the public in order to ensure
public trust, etc.

But the identification issue has to be separate. Otherwise it violates the
secrecy of voting. At most, you can replace the ballot committee with a
biometrics machine, but it has to be a separate machine. And its separateness
has to be transparent to the voter.

Herouth

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