Re: Electronic voting

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 13:18:34 MDT

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    > (Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>):
    >
    > Your system proves is that the newspaper correctly reported back an
    > encrypted version of each person's vote. How do we know this list
    > matches what was counted? How do we know the counts add up to what
    > totals were reported?

    Read it again: the votes themselves are /not/ encrypted, but published
    in plain text for all to count. Only the identifier with each set is
    encrypted--it serves for voter verification and non-repudiation. The
    check for stuffing is the list of names with the same count as votes,
    which is also independently verifiable.

    > How do we know if all the voters were eligible to vote?
    > How do we know that each person only voted once?

    Again, the published list of names. Re-read the proposal carefully.

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