On 20050325T002711+0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Eh, the buyer can demand proof, the same proof a voter has to verify his > vote is tallied: ask the secret token. Assuming md5 is a strong hash, > this way a voter can prove his/her ballot if (s)he wishes to publicly > (or privately) show to have voted in a given way. Ouch. Nasty. Bad. (This is one of the reasons why real elections have partisan observers present in vote counting: you cannot give the voter proof of his vote being counted, so you need another way to ensure public trust in the process.) > As far as I know, the real reason is to enable it for people to vote > without worrying to hurt a person (DPL-candidate), for example that one > ranks a friend quite low because one doesn't think he'd make a good DPL. > Voting for people is necessarily a more personal affair than voting for > something more abstract like a GR about the constitution. Sure, and that is a good argument for this kind of secrecy. However, the reason I gave is the reason secret ballots are a requirement in democratic government. (I include in vote buying the nastier practices of blackmail and duress.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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