[OT] voting survey

[Von Fugal]

<quote name="Levi Pearson" date="Fri, 21 Mar 2008 at 14:53 -0600">
> I agree with the goal of the above system, but it does have a flaw
> with respect to another important property of a voting system.  It
> should be impossible to definitively associate a person with the
> particular votes they cast after they leave the voting booth.  This
> prevents coerced voting and vote selling, since it becomes impossible
> to verify that the votes were cast as the voter claims.

I feel kinda silly, but I've never heard or thought of the vote selling
side of it. I merely focused on the coercion side, it's impossible for
others to know what you voted. Indeed, it's also important that you
cannot verify who you voted for after the fact. Although as you state
below, it should be possible to verify that it wasn't changed!

> I believe that the above property can be combined with assurance that
> your vote is tallied without tampering, and I think I've read a paper
> on a system that provides a method, but I don't recall the details.

Thanks Levi for that thoughtful and informative post.

Von Fugal
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