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Will a paper trail help? Maybe not.Will a paper trail help? Maybe not.Posted Sep 2, 2004 21:28 UTC (Thu) by lilo (guest, #661)In reply to: Will 'controlled open source' software take over election work? (NewsForge) by QuisUtDeus Parent article: Will 'controlled open source' software take over election work? (NewsForge)
How will a paper trail actually help? Yes, I'll be able to walk away with my vote, and if I ever have any question about whether it was falsified, I can come back and check to make sure my vote was registered properly. But votes are fungible pieces of the vote total. A system with a backdoor could simply replace the complete ballot with a bogus one, and still be able to verify that my vote was registered properly in the original, fraud-free ballot. The only way I can think of to use those paper ballot receipts would be to have every single voter in the original election come back and verify their ballots as part of a single process. In a country like the US where there's relatively poor voter turnout, one could reasonably suspect that two elections in a row might not have more than 60-70% voter overlap. Getting all the same people back to verify their votes might be a non-trivial exercise. All of this assumes that the original receipt wasn't bogus, and that the process of verification is closely monitored. Paper receipts would seem to be no panacea.
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