Scientists question electronic voting

[Francois Grieu]

Peter Trei wrote:

>  I'd prefer that the printed receipt be retained at the polling
>  station, after the voter has had an opportunity to examine it.
>  This serves two purposes: First, it prevents the vote selling
>  described above, and second, if a recount is required, it allows
>  the recount to be done on the basis of a trustworthy  record,
>  already certified by the voter as accurate.

Then there is the problem that the printed receipt must not be usable 
to determine who voted for who, even knowing in which order the 
voters went to the machine. Therefore the printed receipts must be 
shuffled. Which brings us straight back to papers in a box, that we 
shake before opening.

Every way I look at it, electronic voting has a hard time to match 
the resilience to abuse of the traditional 
bulletin-in-an-enveloppe-in-a-box.


   Francois Grieu

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