Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:42:47 -0400 From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification ("to prove your vote was counted") clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion ("I can't prove I voted in a particular way.") or other incentives-based attacks.
You can have one, or the other, but not both, right?
What you can have is for the voter to be able to verify that his/her vote was properly counted without being able to prove it to anybody else. In that case, an individual claim that a vote was improperly counted wouldn't be convincing, but a wide enough outcry might trigger a recount. I think this would add unnecessary and undesired complexity to a political election voting system, though. Ray