Re: Vote verification --- a futile exercise?
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:11:32AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Also, the CTF may drop
> votes, and the voter cannot prove that (s)he actually voted properly;
> one would think, though, that if this happened enough to influence the
> election, enough of a public stink would be raised that the election
> results would be suspect.
Hmm... the CTF can drop votes, but not after it has published the
encrypted message containing the vote. And it doesn't get the
decryption key for the vote until after all votes have been collected.
So the CTF can drop votes, but it won't know whose votes they are or
what the votes contain, so this is a suboptimal way of affecting the
election results :) In addition, the voters involved can raise
a stink _before_ the votes are counted, because they can refuse to
send in their private keys until the matter is investigated.
Richard Braakman
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