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Re: voting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Apr 20 11:38:08 2004
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:10:28 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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To: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
Cc: crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
"'privacy.at Anonymous Remailer'" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at>
On Apr 15, 2004, at 8:58 PM, Ed Gerck wrote:
> Currently, voter privacy is absolute in the US and does not depend
> even on the will of the courts. For example, there is no way for a
> judge to assure that a voter under oath is telling the truth about how
> they voted, or not.
For many years in the 90's there was (maybe still is) a resident of
Cook County, Illinois, who refused to vote because she was the only
voter in her precinct, and the precinct totals would consist purely of
her vote. (She lived in a forest preserve. There's probably some
latter-day Brothers Grimm tale in this.)
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