Scientists question electronic voting

David Howe DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk
Fri Mar 7 11:12:42 EST 2003


"Francois Grieu" <fgrieu at micronet.fr> wrote:
> 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.
This may be the case in france - but in england, every vote slip has a
unique number which is recorded against the voter id number on the
original voter card. any given vote *can* be traced back to the voter
that used it.



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