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Re: Scientists question electronic voting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ((Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy)
Fri Mar 7 15:39:21 2003
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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:45:41 -0600
From: "(Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy" <lrkn@earthlink.net>
To: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:22:23AM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:50:44AM -0600, (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy wrote:
> >
> > Paper ballots, folded, and dropped into a large transparent box, is not a
> > broken system. It's voting machines, punch cards, etc that are broken.
> > I don't recall seeing news pictures of an election in any other western
> > democracy where they used machines.
>
> Surely you jest - where else did the term ballot-stuffing come from?
Perhaps you can elaborate on how ballot-stuffing is done without the
co-operation of most of the people overseeing a polling place.
> The key, imho, is >=2 independent means of counting the votes. Online,
> as each vote is cast, and a paper trail, for later reconciliation.
> It's hard for both to be skewed by the same amount, and differences
> will both raise suspicion and give an order of magnitude of the fraud.
> That seems to be the direction the experts are heading.
What is to prevent the people overseeing a polling place from casting the
votes for the dead? They would be recorded properly both ways.
Or they could void and re-vote for ordinary voters.
Seems there is still a problem unless each eligible voter brings a smart-
card, warm finger, eyeball, etc.
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