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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=_GjmRwfk
by 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 agoThey 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 agoTrue, 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.