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

[Maxime Rouquet]

If you find a bank fraud you can sue the author and get money back. If 
this caused more problems, you can ask for more money.

If you find a vote fraud after it occurred, you cannot repair things 
easily. You simply cannot cancel all the decisions taken after this 
vote. So you need to be as sure as possible that there cannot be fraud.


On 01/19/2011 11:55 AM, Yves Quemener wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 11:49 AM, Félix Robles wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Except that :
> - In consumer electronic transactions you can spot fraud. Something is 
> provably missing from an account. Transaction can be traced.
> - Banking system do not pretend to provide absolute privacy
> - Bank-to-bank transaction, as far as I know, rely solely on 
> cryptographic means and do not trust any hardware they do not control 
> in the process.