[E-voting] Minimum requirement to juge voting "technology"

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 10 September 2004 12:54, David GLAUDE wrote:

> Obviously there must be random check.

It may be obvious to you, but it isn't to me.

> Fraud/Bug/Fault can take place without any doubt.

Nobody is going to risk several years in prison
in order to fiddle a vote in such a way that it may make no difference.

There are ways to cheat with the present system,
eg voting in the names of dead or absent voters,
but no-one thinks this justifies random re-counts.

> Now what is the minimum % of vote/presinct/voting-place to check?
> What if there is a problem... starting with wich level of discrepency we
> do a full recount?
> When do we make the random selection of the voting-place to check?

You can't lay down rules like that.
In the end you just have to say that if a reasonable person 
has reasonable doubts then the matter should be looked into.

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