Scientists question electronic voting

[Bill Frantz]

At 5:21 PM -0800 3/3/03, Ed Gerck wrote:
>Henry Norr had an interesting article today at
>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/03/BU1227
>67.DTL&type=business
>
>Printing a paper receipt that the voter can see is a proposal that addresses
>one of the major weaknesses of electronic voting. However, it creates
>problems that are even harder to solve than the silent subversion of
>e-records.
>
>For example, using the proposed system a voter can easily, by using a
>small concealed camera or a cell phone with a camera, obtain a copy of
>that receipt and use it to get money for the vote, or keep the job. And
>no one would know or be able to trace it.

The best counter to this problem is widely available systems to produce
fake photos of the vote, so the vote buyer can't know whether the votes he
sees in the photo are the real votes, or fake ones.

The easiest way to implement is to let people photograph the paper on the
sample/practice -- not for real voting -- machine that poll workers use to
teach voters how to use the real machines.

Cheers - Bill

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