Csakima, While not every electronic voting system is secure, in fact in recent years several such systems have been developed and are being used throughout the United States.
If you'd like to learn more about auditable voting systems I'd suggest you start with the following paper which I ran across http://www.win.tue.nl/xootic/magazine/jul-2000/schoenmakers.pdf it provides a nice intro to recent developments. Two keys to making a system secure are probably distributed trust and auditability. Distributed trust means you put several people in charge of it so that no one person can subvert it (your rich mouse clicker). When subversion requires conspiracy and coordinated effort it becomes much more diffuclt. Using distributed servers allows you to distribute the trust easily and putting people from different parties in charge of different machines makes conspiracies more difficult, for you conspiracy buffs and fellow paranoids we could even run your own set so we'd know who was out to get us :^). The next most important feature is probably to make it easily auditable. This is accompished by giving each person a cryptographicall secure balot reciept (probably paper) that they can type into the server and have the server confirm that their votes are being/where counted correctly. If you want to audit the system you start with a statistical sampling, if your random sample is close enough to you final tallies you should probably go home but it doesn't have to stop there you could arrange for everyone to go to the "recount" web sites and type thier reciepts in. Would this be a perfect and unsubvertable system? No but I do believe we can do better than we do now. Probably mor e geek speak than most of this group wants. I have been doing computer security work for a little over a decade if you want more information I'd suggest the following goole search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=auditable+computer+voting+systems Hope this wasn't to geeky for those of you who just want some biofuel! Kenneth Kron Ex. Internet Security Geek Becoming a biofuel geek with lots of assistance from this list! >Keith: Hey James, you've really puzzled the Americans, LOL! Or some of them >anyway. Best explain the nuts and bolts a bit maybe. > >Curtis: I know what embedded systems are ... but I'll stop here to allow >others to reply to my comments!! > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
