Re: Secure, Secret, and Publicly Verifiable Voting

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 11:31:22AM +0000, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> In the discussion of the "voting secrecy" resolution, people seem to
> have assumed that it is impossible for a voting system to be
> simultaneously secure, tamper-proof, have secret ballots, and also be
> end-to-end publicly verifiable meaning transparent verification of the
> final tally, with voters able to verify that their own vote was
> properly counted. (Our current system does not have secret ballots,
> but does embody the other properties.)
> 
> As it turns out, magic cryptographic fairy dust allows *all* these
> properties to coexist. This is not to say that we *should* have secret
> ballots. Just that we *could*, without sacrificing transparency etc.
>...

Isn't this how DPL elections are already done for 20 years?

https://www.debian.org/vote/2002/voters.txt
https://www.debian.org/vote/2002/tally.txt

https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_001_voters.txt
https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_001_tally.txt

cu
Adrian