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System is Inherently Flawed
This system is inherently flawed. If you have some way of verifying who you voted for after you leave the voting station, votes can be bought and sold. This violates one of the fundamental principles of secret voting (the secret part). They would be better to print out a human and computer readable ballot which is handled like any other paper ballot. You can see what you voted, verify it against what you entered on the computer, and place it in a ballot box. This gives an auditable paper trail, gives the voter the opportunity to verify their vote where it is currently allowed, and gives a method of quickly doing a recount if necessary.

If you wanted to take it a step further, you could attach a serial number to each ballot, generated at voting time, that could be printed on the ballot and listed in the vote database. For a recount, invalidate any ballots where the values for the database and printed votes don't match, based on the serial number. This would make tampering harder than it is today, requiring you to change the printed ballot and the electronic ballot to match after alteration, while still being read by the voter.
Posted by: mdielmann   Posted on: 04/07/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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