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January 15, 2009
A Voting system can be made tamper proof by keeping the initial count separate from the voters information.
Example:
A simple networked device that only counts when a button is pushed at any voting place. Then it issues a ticket with your count number on the ticket with no additional information.
Then you go in to vote with your ticket. The voting machine uses a barcode reader to read the number on your ticket. When you vote that number is put on your ballot as your identifier.
The machine must also print a copy of your ballot with this number on it to be put into a tamperproof ballot box. It also keeps an electronic copy of your ballot with your number on it to be counted electronically at the end of the day. When you are done voting you put your paper ballot into the ballot box. Then you put your ticket into your pocket and take it home with you as a permanent record of your vote.
At the end of the day the copies of all the electronic ballots can be sent to a central location.
yes
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January 15th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
But then one could look into who you voted for, correct? I was briefly wondering the same thing yesterday, but figured there wouldn't be a market for it
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January 15th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Why no,Lebanon,OH and the rest of ohio should be free to hide the count from anyone
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January 15th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
How about this: each candidate and his or her party affiliation is listed on a piece of paper, followed by a circle. If you want to vote for a particular candidate, you put an "X" in the circle for that candidate. Then you fold up the piece of paper and put it in a ballot box, to be counted by human beings.
We have this system in Canada and can get the votes of a nation of 30 million people counted in an evening. It works just fine.
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January 15th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
eventually, there will be flaws that the government finds, or security issues about if it really is more secure (again, with the electronic ballots).
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January 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
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