Verifiable Elections Via Cryptography

An anonymous reader writes, "Cryptographer David Chaum and his research team have invented a new voting protocol which allows voters to verify that their vote has been correctly cast and counted. This is enabled using a surprisingly low-tech technique of cryptographic secret sharing. The secret — your marked ballot — is split into two halves using a hole punch" You take half home and can verify later via a Web interface how your particular ballot was counted.

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It is true...

[petrus4]

...that it is almost certain that American voting authorities would have no interest whatsoever in adopting measures to ensure the integrity of the electronic voting process.

Electronic voting has fairly demonstrably been adopted for the express purpose of more easily committing fraud.

Anyone who is interested in ensuring genuinely honest voting should, in my opinion, advocate a return to non-electronic paper voting, with the vote counting being performed in a completely open, monitored, and transparent manner.

thanks, dumbass

[Lord Bitman]

The problem was never "I need to be able to verify my ballot while others can't". That is a very easy thing to do.

The problem is "I need to be able to have faith my ballot was counted properly, while being unable to prove to anyone (or have proven by anyone) that I voted a particular way".

You have solved nothing.