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Really needs a paper trail
"The software should be 100% open to the public for review and scrutiny. The plain fact of the matter is that it is simply to important to allow it to happen behind closed doors at the good old boys club... "

Yep, but open-source is not exactly a total fix either. Since anything you can write to a disk, I can change with a program regardless of how clever you are with the checksums, logs etc.

Making all the software open source, doesn't stop me running an extra little program to fix the election result.

I really think a paper trail on security paper is needed. Paper because its human readable, so the person making the vote can see his vote registered correctly.
Security paper, because anything that can be printed can be reprinted, so you want it to be as difficult as counterfeiting.

Nothing really complicated there, simply print the votes out on security paper and let the voter see the vote that was just cast/just printed to check it registered their vote correctly.
Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 11/04/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I have never seen the letters  lmaxwell | 11/03/03
and just how does the dmca come into all of this  lmaxwell | 11/03/03
how does the dmca come into all of this ?  Chris Moller | 11/04/03
Here's how  Robert Carnegie | 11/04/03
It's a very flawed law  voska | 11/04/03
HUH??????  vferrara | 11/04/03
integrity  stephen732@... | 11/03/03
Man, what a GREAT book title idea!  BitTwiddler | 11/04/03
integrity  Chris Moller | 11/04/03
secrecy?  stephen732@... | 11/04/03
Read them here  Nigel Johnstone | 11/04/03
Supermarket Till Printers  Nigel Johnstone | 11/04/03
The printer isn't the issue  Robert Crocker | 11/04/03
I think my solution fits this perfectly  Nigel Johnstone | 11/04/03
Ever heard of a Secret Ballot  vferrara | 11/04/03
Secret Ballots afford opportunities for abuse  AbsolutelyNot | 11/04/03
No, you don't have enough info  Nigel Johnstone | 11/05/03
A simple solution to vote fraud & internet voting  bjornafreeman@... | 11/04/03
Bad Idea  vferrara | 11/04/03
More abuse  BitTwiddler | 11/04/03
People link to the documents all the time  cybershoplifter | 11/04/03
Robert Crocker, we agree for a change.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/04/03
Really needs a paper trail  Nigel Johnstone | 11/04/03
Or electronic security paper?  Robert Carnegie | 11/04/03
Human readable  Nigel Johnstone | 11/04/03
Exactly why electronic voting is bad!  Tammee | 11/04/03
Three steps back  bjornafreeman@... | 11/04/03
No, only two...  brendthess | 11/04/03
Any type of ballot can be bogus.  Eqwatz | 11/04/03
dmca  tswanson@... | 11/04/03

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