[pp.int.general] Agora Voting System for a Liquid Democracy at FOSDEM

[Félix Robles]

Any and every electronic voting system is vulnerable on the user side,
because a program could be deceiving the user. You just can't take enough
precautionary measures.

But this is as true in e-commerce and electronic banks  as it is in e-voting
and we do millions of electronic transaccions every day. You just have to
fight fraud.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Yves Quemener <quemener.yves at free.fr>wrote:

> I agree that having a mix of third party organizations that would protect
> the privacy of the vote instead of its integrity could be an acceptable
> compromise.
>
> Just a remark on :
>
>
> On 01/19/2011 10:55 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote:
>
>> The livecd wouldbe 100% free software. Check the software source code
>> if you want. Then bring your own CD, we do a check sum or similar to
>> be sure that CD is correct, then you can use it.
>>
>
> No, that won't even work. How can I trust that you will really boot on the
> CD ? Or that you don't have a BIOS spying on my vote ? Or that you don't
> sniff keyboard and screen outputs ? There are many ways to cheat. That was
> one of my arguments against black box voting machines : they pretend that
> they are inspected but nowadays we could even hide a computer in any of the
> connectors used by the "inspected" machine. Trusting a given hardware is
> very hard nowadays and it will only get worse. That is why cryptography is
> so important.
>
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