voting

[Yeoh Yiu]

Ed Gerck <egerck at nma.com> writes:

> David Jablon wrote:
> > 

> The 'second law' also takes precedence: ballots are always secret, only
> vote totals are known and are known only after the election ends.
> 
> > What I see in serious
> > voting system research efforts are attempts to build systems that
> > provide both accountability and privacy, with minimal tradeoffs.
> 
> There is no tradeoff prossible for voter privacy and ballot secrecy.
> Take away one of them and the voting process is no longer a valid
> measure. Serious voting system research efforts do not begin by
> denying the requirements.

You get totals per nation, per state, per county, per riding,
per precinct, per polling stion and maybe per ballot box.
So there's a need to design the system to have more voters
than ballot boxes to conform to your second law.

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