At 8:38 PM -0400 5/12/06, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Some Former Backers of Technology Seek Return to Paper Ballots, Citing Glitches, Fraud Fears
<Sister-Mary-Elephant> Class? Class??? [...] Thenk yew... Since modern financial cryptography proves that one can either sell one's electronic vote and be perfectly (okay, more or less perfectly) anonymous, or not sell one's electronic vote and be perfectly identified, neither of which is politically tenable, can anyone tell me a situation under which the former is perfectly fine? Hint: It's financial. </S-M-E> Cheers, RAH For extra credit, offer an actual political solution using the "financial" answer above? Okay, not necessarily, political, more of a political singularity. Yes, this is an easy one for the older kids... Play nice. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'