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  • From: Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney <alchemist AT pobox.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Florida elections?
  • Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:46:55 -0500 (EST)


At 1:32pm Today, "Simon Spero" typed :
> As for the difference in reliablity between electronic and paper voting;
> there are a number of cryptographic protocols that have been developed to
> handle electronic voting that are theoretically even more secure than
> paper; most are as hard as factoring large numbers.

And, quite frankly, it would be trivial to allow the user to "print a
receipt" - as well as mail them one. That way there are paper records to
compare against. Voter fraud could still ahppen, although it would have to
be a lot more subtle than steeling the ballot box.

I personally think we should get a receipt for our votes anyway. Sure,
people are going to try falsify the reeipts to try to fix elections, but
it'll require even more work than it does now *grin*

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