Re: Wait just a friggin' minute!

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Nicholas Bernstein wrote:

...  The only way to verify that your vote
> was counted is to allow each person to see the results of their vote
> AFTER the ballot is processed and the results tabulated.

I worked on this problem for phone voting 13 yrs ago. You can see my
solution at www.vote.org/secure.htm   But this requires a systemic
change in voting -with pin numbers. My solution is not foolproof, but
fail-safe: if votes are somehow changed from how you voted, you know.
It doesn't (by itself) solve the problem of false votes stuffing the
"box" -either paper or electronic.

It's impossible to make politicians -who are feverishly trying to get
this decades-in-the-making problem off their plates- think long-term
or systemicly.

That's why I suggest the only system we're likely to get that people
will trust for now is hand-counted paper.

Evan