[pp.int.general] Online voting versus online discussion

[Charly Pache]

I heard about an e-voting system where people get a checksum when they
vote and then the database of all e-votes is published, everyone can
download it and check both the global result (with many different
programs, developed by political parties, citizen associations,
medias, the open source community, other individuals...)  and whether
it's really what they voted that was taken into account. This way,
there will be no more this software issue, it's transparent,
verifiable, secrecy of vote is guaranteed. It's based on
maths/encryption and not on software. Has anyone more information on
it?

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi people:
>
> I'm the leading developer of Agora Ciudadana decision taking system. I
> have researched a bit on voting, elections, secrecy of the ballot,
> etc. RMS is right: what complicates everything is definitely the
> secrecy of the ballot.
>
> There's an interesting talk of Ben Adida, cryptographer and now
> working at Mozilla, about voting systems and the history of it in his
> USA perspective, I think it's worth to watch: https://t.co/Ju6j6z2C
>
> One of the things that I didn't know is that the USA has had secrecy
> of the ballot for a decade now; previously, the vote was public for
> everyone to know.
>
> Regards,
>      Eduardo
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