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You trust paper voting because voting booths are operated by representatives of the different candidates. When it comes time to count no one will let their oppo
by pedrocr 10y ago
You trust paper voting because voting booths are operated by representatives of the different candidates. When it comes time to count no one will let their opponent steal votes for themselves. And the reason you can't add your digital signature to your vote is that you could then prove to someone you had voted for candidate X and collect your bribe.
People that want to propose complex electronic voting systems need to first understand the requirements of an election and how the paper voting achieves them. There's quite a lot of well thought-out systems thinking in paper voting that people just don't know about.
- ph14nix 10y ago> And the reason you can't add your digital signature to your vote is that you could then prove to someone you had voted for candidate X and collect your bribe. I was arguing against treating a blot on a paper as a certification of one's opinion rather than proposing a real electronic voting protocol. Of course, simple digital signature doesn't solve all the problems, it only certifies with known assumptions that I and only I have signed the document.