Re: [ei] Re: EPIC Audits First Public Election to use Scantagrity Voting System (Takoma Park, MD)

[Lucius Chiaraviglio]

Nov 10, 2009 11:23:52 AM, kathy...@gmail.com wrote:
> Respected computer science professor Doug Jones responds with some
> enlightening corrections and additional information to some of my
> criticisms of the Scantegrity voting system. Worth reading.
Doug Jones wrote:
> > Therefore, even if *all* voters checked and found an online matching
> > ballot, there is no way provided for voters to know that the same set
> > of ballots was used to tally the election results.
>
> Not true. If you understand the crypto (which few people do), then you
> can prove that all votes were counted correctly.

Not only do you have to understand the crypto, but you have to be able to
prove that the crypto is being done as advertised, AND that the machine
isn't faking it. For all practical purposes, this is not possible.

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Lucius Chiaraviglio