[EM] NYT: Trustworthy voting systems

[Niemzinski at ecybermind.net]

The March 2 Science section of the NY Times had a good article about the
cryptographic voting systems devised by Dr. David Chaum and Dr. C. Andrew Neff
titled "Did Your Vote Count? New Coded Ballots May Prove It Did".  The article 
presented an overview that explained the process and the overall benefits and
limitations.  Also, the "frog" voting system proposed by Caltech/M.I.T Voting
Technical Project is explained.  Students at George Washington University are
working to program Dr. Chaum's system for a trial student election.  Dr. Neff's
company, VoteHere, is on the verge of releasing a software version of his
system.

Mathematically sophisticated voters, like some of the people in this group,
would be needed to verify that no votes were lost or altered during the
decryption process.

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