[EM] 3ballot - revolutionary new protocol for secure secret ballot elections

[Dave Ketchum]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:58:35 -0700 (PDT) David Cary wrote:
  > --- Dave Ketchum <davek at clarityconnect.com> wrote:
  >
  >
  >>ps, As to privacy, I read of video-camera phones.  Their usage has
  >>to be tricky - can they verify a voter's actual vote as such
  >
  > without
  >
  >>voting machine operation being set up compatible with such?
  >>
  >>ps, quoting:  "I doubt there is a voting system in existence that
  >>is immune from enough vote verification to support vote buying or
  >>coercion" The lever machines I have been voting on all my life are
  >>immune, for they keep NONE of the records of interest.
  >
Some of us have only one hand, so normal tasks are required to be doable
with one hand.  Thus most of us have a free hand for the camera.  Still
tricky to keep the camera clearly focused on our own actions while doing a
task.

Task design should aim toward both keeping normal tasks easy, AND making
such aiming difficult.  Mix in making it difficult to learn from the video
record.

DWK
  >
  > If a voter wants to document how she voted, I was thinking in terms
  > of her taking a short video showing herself, the relevant details of
  > her marked ballot, and her casting that ballot as her vote.  Such
  > documentation can certainly be falsified or made to be deceptive.
  > But as long as for most people such countermeasures cost more in
  > time, effort, and expertise than they are worth, such documentation
  > is probably sufficient for a vote buying scheme. It could work
  > regardless of whether she was casting her ballot with pen and paper,
  > an electronic touch screen machine, or a mechanical voting machine.
  >
  > I suppose a voting mechanism could be divised that would resist video
  > documentation, but I doubt it would be sufficiently usable for most
  > people.
  >
  > -- Dave Cary
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