Re: [atlarge-discuss] POLLING COMMITTEE: Reporting Audited Results

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jefsey and all fellow members,

  NO dice Jefsey, let's see the code!

J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

> At 21:58 03/06/03, Walter Schmidt wrote:
> >By stripping the name from the votes, giving them a "number," and not
> >maintaining a name=number table, you have a complex transaction.
>
> This is totally wrong. This table is the key of the security of the system.
> This is what you do not want to see. Let do it again:
>
> - the table was created by me - acting as the missing automated program.
> Should have been created by a program using the mailing list and giving
> every member a random VID.
> - that table (VID + mail + names) has been sent to the Members of the
> Polling Committee. From then on I could not temper it witout it being seen.
> I was no more than an acting program.
> - to make sure the Polling Committee could not unite and temper the vote,
> the VID list has been encrypted and sent to the Watchdogs before the vote.
> After the vote they received the password. So no one could say could have
> attempted vote stuffing. And the PC could not add vote either.
> - to make help Members checking we publish the list of the voters - what I
> will not do again as it has probably limited the numbers of opponents
> fearing bickering.
>
> The only possible flaw PC members possibility to add votes. This risk is
> reduced in several ways:
> - the files keep track of the bounces.
> - any investigation committee would see it immediately incomparing mail ID
> and Voters e-mail
> - the VID and the names have been published (this is why we published names).
>
> IMHO the system should work without Polling Committee involvement and
> watchdogs. Only as a pure GNU ballot box with automated count. This way
> there would not be any risk of manipulation.
>
> jfc
>
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