[pp.int.general] Towards a secure eDemocracy platform based on Web service standards

[MRE]

Hello,

In Spain you're not forced to go into the polling booth... although it
seems like it would be a good idea.

In fact, most people don't use it and they just take a single ballot
and put in the envelope for everyone to see so in many cases, although
who's voted what it's not in a public database, it may not be secret
unless you really want to.

Moreover, since large parties have the money to send advertising to
all voters, they send it together with their ballot papers and
envelope, so that many people does that at home and they don't even
have to browse through less known parties' ballot papers.

If they do it this way they can be forced by their husbands or
families to vote whatever and no one would know because on the polling
station they just have to put the envelope inside the ballot box.
The same situation may happen when voting by snail mail, which is also
another possibility for anyone in Spain.

It seems to me that we're being much more strict with electronic
voting than we're really being with standard paper voting. Probably we
should change the paper voting law as well in some countries to be
more strict about all this and enforce democratic principles.

Cheers,

        Muriel



2012/7/14 Maxime Rouquet <maxime.rouquet at partipirate.org>:
> On 07/14/2012 03:31 PM, Kenneth Peiruza wrote:
>> What happens in districts with only a bunch of voters? If there's 50
>> voters in a tiny village, do you really think that the mafia-major of
>> the village will not notice that you didn't stick to what he wanted?
>> it's fucking easy, the one entering a privacy cabinet to hide what's his
>> vote, that's the one who didn't voted what he wanted.
>
> I do not not for the rest of the world, but in France, it is mandatory
> to get inside the polling booth, and if you take ballot papers you have
> to take papers for at least two different people/lists.
>
> If you show what paper you put in the envelope, then the chairman of the
> poll has to _refuse_ your envelope.
>
> Therefore, the only possible way of knowing for sure what a given person
> has voted would be that everybody vote exactly the same.
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