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A Secure and Verifiable Voting System

Posted by michael on from the he-makes-it-look-easy dept.

meese writes "The cryptographer David Chaum, through discussion with top cryptographers such as Ron Rivest, has designed a secure and verifiable voting system. One of the goals of his design is that anyone can verify that votes were tabulated correctly. It's good to see real security/crypto people working on this problem. They also have a press release."

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  1. Is this really nessicary? by PhoenixSpirit001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I dunno, to me this still seems like another case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Sure, it's nice to move to digital and save a few trees in doing so. But those dead trees leave a paper trail. And if people are incapable of punching out a hole next to who they vote for and making sure there's no hanging chads, do we really care about their votes that much?

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  2. Re:How about by rokzy · · Score: 0, Troll

    but didn't work in 2000 did it?

  3. Secure voting?? by physicsboy500 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they decided not to use Microsoft?

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