CDR: Re: A secure voting protocol

[Tim May]

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:"


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