CDR: Re: A secure voting protocol
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Tue Nov 14 09:55:01 PST 2000
At 12:34 PM -0500 11/14/00, sunder wrote:
>"Trei, Peter" wrote:
>> One solution I've seen used in 3rd world countries is to require people
>> who have just voted to dip a forefinger into a cup of intense, penetrating
>> dye, which they are very unlikely to be able to remove in one day.
>
>Wouldn't some sort of wax spread on the hand prevent such a dye from
>working once peeled off? i.e. I'm thinking along the lines of liquid
>latex or crazy glue like substances... :)
>
The dye works well. While hackers like us can _imagine_ ways to
circumvent the dye, most such circumventions are hard to actually
pull off.
In any case, a better solution (no pun intended) than the current
system in which folks in Milwaukee got to vote multiple times.
And better for various reasons than requiring identification credentials.
--Tim May
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