Re: Electronic voting

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Sun May 18 2003 - 23:00:43 MDT

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    > (Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>):
    > 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's still voter registration records: this system doesn't change
    that. It would be just a susceptible to fraud in those as the current
    system is. So while you would not be able to simply add votes with
    random names (because you would at least be able to match names with
    voter registration records), you could still fake registrations.

    Securing registrations is a separate issue. I'm sure there are ways
    to do that as well.

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