changing a vote?

[Dean Herington]

I'm just getting familiar with OpaVote and am extremely impressed with the system, including its capabilities, simplicity, and documentation (as well as price!).

The one feature I'm disappointed not to see is the ability for a voter to change his/her vote.  I can understand that not allowing "revoting" would make it easier to ensure the anonymity that is usually required.  But it seems that, at some additional design cost, supporting revoting could be done securely without jeopardizing anonymity.  Put another way, votes would not be anonymous in OpaVote's internal data but would be anonymized in the reports that are provided.  Is that approach considered too costly or too vulnerable in some way?

[Jeff O'Neill]

Hi Dean,

We think it is best that an anonymous vote be completely anonymous -- even in OpaVote's database that is only accessible by us.

Some customers would be alarmed if that wasn't the case.

Jeff

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 4:45 PM Dean Herington <dher...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm just getting familiar with OpaVote and am extremely impressed with the system, including its capabilities, simplicity, and documentation (as well as price!).

The one feature I'm disappointed not to see is the ability for a voter to change his/her vote.  I can understand that not allowing "revoting" would make it easier to ensure the anonymity that is usually required.  But it seems that, at some additional design cost, supporting revoting could be done securely without jeopardizing anonymity.  Put another way, votes would not be anonymous in OpaVote's internal data but would be anonymized in the reports that are provided.  Is that approach considered too costly or too vulnerable in some way?

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[Sue Doherty]

So is it not possible to change a vote? Someone emailed me and said they voted for the wrong person in error and they want to change their vote.  I didn't see a way to do that. 

[Team OpaVote]

No, it is not possible to change a ballot that has already been cast.

Best,
-- Ana
Team OpaVote
https://opavote.com

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[Sue Doherty]

Thank you, that's what I thought.