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How does this accomplish goals #1 and #2 of TFA?

• jedberg 10y ago
  What do you mean? It meets all six goals: - Be verifiable - you should be able to see your own vote. You can view the print out of your vote before it drops into the secure box. - Be auditable - anyone should be able to tally up the results of the election. Anyone can count the paper ballots - Be secure - it must not leak anyone's vote to anyone else. It's on an unidentified piece of paper - Be genuine - it should be cryptographically impossible to commit voter fraud. Well, you have to rely on standard methods of preventing voter fraud, but since there have only been five cases of proven voter fraud in the history of US elections, it's not really a big deal - Be tamper-proof - it must be impossible to forge results from the inside. Since the paper is in the machine and verified by a human, you can't really tamper with it any more than you can tamper with paper ballots today, and since those or monitored by adversarial groups, it's basically impossible to tamper with them.