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have you seen this Ted Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I

It's not totally "user friendly", but I'd say it's a huge step towards "secure and reliable" voting.

⬐ nknighthb

I know of various proposals that offer a theoretical solution. The problem is getting it implemented, fully vetting the implementation, and getting everybody to use it.

There were lots of ways we could have made touchscreen voting machines highly secure. Instead we gave Diebold millions of dollars.

I have no reason to believe that sound security principles will be followed by any large organization, including governments, in my lifetime.

There was this talk on TED a few years ago about e-voting without fraud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I

I think they had a website for it, too, but I can't find it right now, and don't remember how it was called exactly.

⬐ Create

“You can't solve social problems with software.” (Marcus Ranum).

It isn't clear from the talk, that:

- you cannot inject votes digitally (within parts of the system) - you may only verify your own vote, and may or may not know about "extra" votes, especially under low turnout, which is very frequent (the euphemism is "democratic deficit")

- supersedes chain voting: it is not clear, that voters cannot be bribed, where the briber can ask for your receipt to verify your voting (currently this is done by buffering voting slips: the first is taken out, filled out in front of the briber and exchanged for the clean copy inside the booth, which in turn is taken out etc.).

What about this system covered a while back on TED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I