voting "machines" eliminate voting
Posted Mar 18, 2008 23:42 UTC (Tue) by
hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to:
voting "machines" eliminate voting by joey
Parent article:
Sequoia v. Ed Felten
As I understand it, the Debian voting is also based on sending gpg encrypted and signed votes to a server that is trusted to keep it secret. That would also not work in real elections. A good voting protocol must be designed so that the "who gave this vote" and "what is the content of the vote" are never known to the same party/component. At the same time of course it must be proven that who gave the vote is eligible to vote and voted only once.
There are however protocols that can do this, some quite good, some "almost there". This is quite a good summary of all protocols out there.
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