Re: Dual DRE/paper system

[Nicholas Bernstein <bernsten@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neal McBurnett wrote:

> This ends up allowing the user to prove who and what they voted for.
> They could bring the receipt to someone as proof of how they voted.
> It thus violates the principle that the system must not facilitate
> vote buying.  I don't know of many people who are willing to give up
> on that.  We got away from it in the late 1800's - good riddance!
>  
This does no worse in this regard than absentee voting.

David Chaum's idea is clever, but it does seem unnecessarily 
complicated. We already have a absentee system that could be used to in 
vote buying. In any case, if people really want to prove how they voted, 
they can take a camcorder with them into the both. Even my digital still 
camera can take 3 minutes of video, certainly long enough for me to 
demonstrate how I voted.

Incidently, I don't believe there is a danger of it getting patented. 
Once an idea is in the public domain it can no longer be patented.