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You're describing part of a system tried in Washington State in the 90s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712
by RyJones 12y ago
You're describing part of a system tried in Washington State in the 90s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771264 is where I wrote it up.
- PeterisP 12y agoIt doesn't seem to be in any way related - the system described in your link tracks the ballots and "proves" (actually, reports) that they were counted. It, at least as described, doesn't in any way allow to verify if that vote was counted as you intended, it's a proper closed vote with all the related assumptions about trust and need to physically monitor the voting and counting to prevent fraud.
- RyJones 12y agothe votes are prime numbers that are multiplied into a composite number. to verify your vote, divide the published composite by your prime twice. If it shows up with an integer remainder after the first division, your vote was counted at least once. After the second division, it was counted multiple times. Non integer for the second division, only counted once.