CDR: Re: A secure voting protocol
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Sat Nov 11 16:33:01 PST 2000
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
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