CDR: Re: A secure voting protocol

petro petro at bounty.org
Sat Nov 11 19:51:59 PST 2000


Mr. May said:
>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:"


	Anyone who can read a Florida Ballot, and is the least 
familiar with how MUAs and Newsreaders work can tell that you wrote 
the part with the three (now four) angle brackets (>).

	As to adding the <x> wrote: sometimes I remember, sometimes I 
forget. I am still human, and hence not perfect.
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