From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 23:20:18 MDT
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> I guess I am missing something. Suppose there is a
> vote by "John Doe." How
> do I know if that is a real person or a made-up
> vote. I see your method
> where John Doe could object if his vote wasn't
> counted, or was counted
> wrong. But how do other people verify that John Doe
> really existed?
There is already a list of those eligible to vote.
Such a list would continue to be maintained,
preferably
on a different system and by a different agency than
the per-election lists of who voted and which IDs
voted
for what. How much of the list of possible voters
would be public (if any of it) is a detail to be
worked
out, but just the names (no signatures, addresses, et
cetera) seems possibly a good solution.
Now, as to making sure that this list does not contain
dead people...that might be a problem. But it's the
same problem we face today, with existing solutions
that do a good if not perfect job. I'm not sure it is
entirely possible to remove non-truly-existant voters
from the rolls in the worst case (all agencies
connected to the election either convinced that the
voter exists, or doing the convincing).
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