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I don't think a paper receipt is necessary if the system is trusted (the system gives feedback if it accepted your input). Recount paper trail is also a trust
by loewenskind 16y ago
I don't think a paper receipt is necessary if the system is trusted (the system gives feedback if it accepted your input). Recount paper trail is also a trust issue. The audit is a real issue, but I question how accurate the statement "There's no good way to audit an election result" is given the requirements to prove that everyone voted, etc.
In any case, at present it's up against something thrown together with Ruby on rails.
- eli 16y agoI tend to agree with you, but you asked why we didn't just buy the Brazilian system. And my guess is that's part of it.
- loewenskind 16y agoYes, that could well be. My friend said the US did invest it, so they know about it. Personally I would rather have a system like Brazil has today as a place to at least start from rather than the horrible way votes are done in the US today.
- swolchok 16y ago> I don't think a paper receipt is necessary if the system is trusted (the system gives feedback if it accepted your input). Front-end: "vote counted!" Back-end: vote redirected to /dev/null! It's not immediately obvious to me how to make such a system transparent enough to convince the losers that they lost honestly. Cryptographic schemes may be able to solve it, but I think it's an open question whether they'll be convincing and secure in practice.