Re: CRIME Electronic Voting Security

From: Warren Harrison (warren@private)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 16:10:15 PDT

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    Crispin Cowan wrote:
    
    > you can call the elections office and they can tell you if you were 
    > sent a ballot and if they received a ballot back from you - they 
    > cannot tell you how you voted only if they got a ballot from you 
    > (there is an assumption that it was counted correctly if you did NOT 
    > hear from teh elections office that your ballot was NOT counted).
    > This doesn't fly: Americans barely vote at all (pitiful 50% turn-outs) 
    > and they certainly are not going to verify ballot receipt via phone in 
    > any significant volume. This leaves the system wide open to the 
    > previously mentioned attacks of "losing" ballots from selected counties. 
    
    Good point - voter apathy is a growing problem - one of the reasons 
    vote-by-mail *is* so important.
    Even Canada only had 61% voter turnout in 2000. U.S. voter turnout in 
    2000 was 51% - BUT
    (specifically due to our mail-in voting,or so some people believe) voter 
    turnout in Oergon was 80%.
    A mechanism where a return postcard was sent to the voter when their 
    vote was received, would
    likely be something voters would start looking for.
    
    
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