Scientists question electronic voting

[Anton Stiglic]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Frantz" <frantz at pwpconsult.com>
To: "Ed Gerck" <egerck at nma.com>; <cryptography at wasabisystems.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: Scientists question electronic voting


[..]
> 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.

An extortionist could provide their own camera device to the voter, which
has
a built in clock that timestamps the photos and does some watermarking, or
something like that, which could complicate the counter-measures. But this
problem already exists with current non-electronic voting scheme.
It depends on the value attributed to a vote (would an extortionist be
willing to provide these custom devices?).

--Anton



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