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check this out: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_bismark_e_voting_without_fraud.html http://www.ted.com/talks/david_bismark_e_voting_without_frau...

• JonnieCache 15y ago
  I'll see your 7 minutes of TED and raise you 60 minutes of Google TechTalks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjmRwfkRXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjmRwfkRXY Electronic and Internet Voting (The Threat of Internet Voting in Public Elections) It goes into all sorts of electoral fraud, the finer points of designing elections from a hacker perspective, the diebold hacks, and that awful rails app that those students (?) wrote in the hopes of using it in some US local elections a while back. In brief, that system isn't safe because someone can obtain your reciept and therefore your voting rights from you by coercion/incentives. Votes should never be verifiable, because then they can be bought. Vote reciepts would be pretty valuable...
  • jeradj 15y ago
    >Votes should never be verifiable, because then they can be bought It's nearly legal to buy votes anyway, but they just call it advertising.
  • anonymoushn 15y ago
    They are already verifiable. You provide the seller with an absentee ballot, he or she fills it out, and then you exchange the completed ballot for the beer/cash/delicious pie.
    • JonnieCache 15y ago
      True, but a crucial difference is that the cryptvoting allows verification after the fact, while absentee ballots must be verified in the window between the ballots being sent out and polling day.