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Re: Secret Ballots: How Secret



>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
    Russ> [*] I do want to acknowledge, however, that having the
    Russ> *capability* for verification even if almost no one uses it
    Russ> routinely does provide real protection against shenanigans,
    Russ> since it means should anyone suspect shenanigans a bunch of
    Russ> people can go back and verify their votes even if they didn't
    Russ> initially, provided they retained the necessary information.

    Russ> -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)
    Russ> <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

That's why I'm comfortable with the DPL approach.
I doubt people do verifications regularly, but I bet there would be a
lot more verifications happening if the results were surprising or
especially if someone claimed their verification had failed.

--Sam


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