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

[raphfrk at netscape.net]

 One way of ensuring (for approval anyway) that only valid ballots are cast would be to give each voter 4 ballots for each candidate, 2 ballots marked FOR and 2 marked AGAINST. The marks that indicate which are on one side of the ballots.
 
 The voter goes into a private area and folds the ballots in two so that the side with the markings are hidden. He then (in public) places one ballot in each of 4 slots of a machine. 
 
 The machine cuts the 4 ballots in half along the fold. Both halves of the ballot in the "discard" slot are shredded. The voter picks one of the remaining slots and one half of the ballot in that slot is returned. One half of the ballot in the other 2 slots are shredded. The 3 unshredded halves are then cast.
 
 This ensures that nobody can vote 0 or 3 times.
 
 These ballots could be made reasonably small, so it may not be that cumbersome.
 
 This doesn't work for range or plurality though.
 
 Btw, in the paper linked, the voting method covered is plurality.
 
 Being able to cast plurality type ballots would be required to be able to handle something like asset voting or party list voting too, so it is a feature that would be useful.
  Raphfrk
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 From: bql at bolson.org
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 Sent: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 6:05 PM
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  Nevermind, google shall provide, this must be it:

http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVotingSystem.pdf

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/

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