Re: FWD: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Election SOddities and DanIrregularities (was something...

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2003-06-09 14:13:26 +1200, Joop Teernstra quoted:

>>the ballots of identifiers, and then forwards the stripped and
>>possibly altered votes to a set of "watchdogs", one does not
>>have an integrity of process.
> 
> You are so right.

Watchdogs are only a first line of defense.  They are neither
necessary, nor sufficient in order to guarantee the integrity of a
vote.  Instead, key elements for an integer election process are
these:

- Every participant needs to be able to verify the list of voters.
- Every participant needs to be able to verify the corerctness of
  any calculations or counts done.
- Every participant needs to be able to verify that his own vote has
  bee included properly.

Regards, 
-- 
Thomas Roessler			      <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

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