Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Agreeing, I expect every vote to count. I expect anonymity as well
> as transparency--I want to be able to audit every vote from the poll
> to the final count. This could be done electronically by issuing an
> unique id for every single vote (not voter). You get a receipt with
> all of your ids and which way each was voted and could look them up
> at any time to make sure they are recorded as you entered them. Of
> course, this does nothing to prove that the tally is correct, but
> does make sure they at least have an accurate record of what you
> really entered.
I agree with the goal of the above system, but it does have a flaw
with respect to another important property of a voting system. It
should be impossible to definitively associate a person with the
particular votes they cast after they leave the voting booth. This
prevents coerced voting and vote selling, since it becomes impossible
to verify that the votes were cast as the voter claims.
I believe that the above property can be combined with assurance that
your vote is tallied without tampering, and I think I've read a paper
on a system that provides a method, but I don't recall the details.
The gist would be that the value you look up with your vote key proves
that you did vote and that the vote you cast is unchanged in the
system, but does not reveal the actual value of your vote.
--Levi
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