[1385] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: distributed virtual bank
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Layten)
Fri Aug 29 17:27:25 1997
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:06:12 -0500
From: Larry Layten <larry@ljl.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
I would guess the "black marketers" of voting tokens would
be the recipient of the political money then instead of the
advertisers and media.
nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com wrote:
[...]
> On voting day, I send my "coin" to the party HQ
> of my choice. The tokens are easily proved valid or invalid, only a
> finite number are issued (one to each voter), they can't be forged, and
> the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc. merely act as collection
> agencies and count them (and they can't forge the votes either, nor
> identify who they came from). The votes could then be published by each
> party HQ (although the list would be huge), but there could be no
> cheating.
