Re: Dual method

["lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Dec, Nicholas Bernstein <bernsten@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'm not sure I'm following you about the private key. The voter doesn't
need >(or even want) to know that the county has matched his/her name to a
>particular ballot.

Before the last election, Boulder County matched my name to two ballots,
sent to my street address and my P.O.Box.  They did not uniquely identify
me nor did they send me a unique ballot matched to a unique identity. 
Whatever the paper ballot system, pure or dual, if the registration list
cannot be verified, to the County and the voter, there is little hope that
the ballot will be free of flaw or fraud.  Florida taught us that 90,000
mostly black voters fraudulently disenfranchised from a computer-purged
list leads to a faith-based selected prez, regardless of whining about
hanging chads, butterfly designs, or intimidating bus-loads of appointee
hacks.  

Hundreds of millions of secure transactions are conducted every day on the
internet by encrypted transmission.  There is no reason DRE/paper voting
cannot be even more secure, using unique private key signatures to ensure
that both the voter and the ballot are carrying out Senator Wellstone's
ideal of "one person, one vote - no more and no less".

Lou

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