At 4:19 PM -0800 11/11/00, petro wrote:
-- At 03:11 PM 11/10/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Physical ballot voting has its problems, but at least people _understand_ the concept of marking a ballot, as opposed to "blinding the exponent of their elliptic curve function and then solving the discrete log problem for an n-out-of-m multi-round tournament."
Ideally, we should organize an election so that the illiterate, the stupid, and the drunk will generally fail to vote correctly. Unfortunately someone would then issue the handy dandy automatic party vote generator, and hand it out to the illiterate, the stupid, and the drunk, adding a bottle of cheap wine when handing it out to the drunk.
The easiest way to do this would be to have the ballot books only contain numbers, and the sample ballots mailed to each (allegedly) registered voter provide the mapping from name/issue to number.
I did not write the paragraph you attributed to me (presumably through not-so-careful snipping). Please be more careful. If necessary, manually add a line like "James Donald said:" --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.