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If John Doe is listed as having voted, but is fake, how would you know he's fake?

dagw 8y ago
There are also lists of who lives in a county/state/country. If you suspect foul play you can further look up if John Doe is a person that lives in the 'right' place. Of course this doesn't solve the case where John Doe is a real person that is allowed to vote, but actually stayed home.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  How in the world would you know to suspect foul play from specific people though? Especially when they can be a very small fraction of the population?
- codedokode 8y ago
  With paper voting, an observer can manually count the number of people coming to the polling station. With electronic voting, this becomes impossible, because you either only see the final list or (sometimes) you see the hashes of votes being cast in real time, but you don't know whether it is a real person or just sysadmin voting under name of a random person. So with electronic voting, it becomes necessary to verify lists of voters.
sytelus 8y ago
You will typically get voter registration ID, just like in paper votes so you should be able to trace. The only thing different in electronic voting is that you sign vote with your private key which becomes your signature. So in theory, whatever can you do by receiving signed paper from someone, you can also do by encrypted content from someone.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  > You will typically get voter registration ID, just like in paper votes so you should be able to trace. The only thing different in electronic voting is that you sign vote with your private key which becomes your signature. So in theory, whatever can you do by receiving signed paper from someone, you can also do by encrypted content from someone. Either you're responding to the wrong comment or I'm failing to see how this is at all relevant to what I asked. How does tracing your own vote tell you if John Doe was fake?

dagw 8y ago

There are also lists of who lives in a county/state/country. If you suspect foul play you can further look up if John Doe is a person that lives in the 'right' place. Of course this doesn't solve the case where John Doe is a real person that is allowed to vote, but actually stayed home.

mehrdadn 8y ago
How in the world would you know to suspect foul play from specific people though? Especially when they can be a very small fraction of the population?
codedokode 8y ago
With paper voting, an observer can manually count the number of people coming to the polling station. With electronic voting, this becomes impossible, because you either only see the final list or (sometimes) you see the hashes of votes being cast in real time, but you don't know whether it is a real person or just sysadmin voting under name of a random person. So with electronic voting, it becomes necessary to verify lists of voters.

sytelus 8y ago

You will typically get voter registration ID, just like in paper votes so you should be able to trace. The only thing different in electronic voting is that you sign vote with your private key which becomes your signature. So in theory, whatever can you do by receiving signed paper from someone, you can also do by encrypted content from someone.

mehrdadn 8y ago
> You will typically get voter registration ID, just like in paper votes so you should be able to trace. The only thing different in electronic voting is that you sign vote with your private key which becomes your signature. So in theory, whatever can you do by receiving signed paper from someone, you can also do by encrypted content from someone. Either you're responding to the wrong comment or I'm failing to see how this is at all relevant to what I asked. How does tracing your own vote tell you if John Doe was fake?