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Re: Ink, Trust and the Electronic Vote

cgerrish — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:03:01 -0000

A screenshot with a time stamp? A photo of you voting while holding up today's edition of the NY Times? Or is it really just a copy of your vote sent to an archive under your control?

Re: Ink, Trust and the Electronic Vote

Karoli — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:56:05 -0000

some sort of real-time record of what I did at that moment that can be matched against the archive later...at least, that's my gut response. I can produce a hard copy receipt now that can be matched to my ballot put in the ballot box. That creates an audit trail that cements and links my vote to me. An electronic version of that would be 'digital cement'.

Re: Ink, Trust and the Electronic Vote

cgerrish — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:48:43 -0000

The word "cemented" seems to be key. What does digital cement look like?

Re: Ink, Trust and the Electronic Vote

Karoli — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:16:47 -0000

What it lacks right now is a clear tie to an unique voter identity. Note that I am not saying the identity has to identify the person. But there isn't a way right now (or at least, a way that is immediately apparent) for my vote cast on an electronic voting machine to be recorded as MY VOTE and cemented.

We've seen hacks to websites and other electronic media change the character, intent and nature of the site. Intentionally. That is my primary concern with electronic voting -- that my stated vote will be changed by someone and there will be no clear audit trail back to my original intent.