[E-voting] RE: Minimum Requirement to judge voting "technology"

[Keith Martin]

>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:06:00 +0100
>From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: Re: [E-voting] Minimum requirement to juge voting
>	"technology"
>To: e-voting at lists.stdlib.net
>
>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.

Not random recounts, but there's a system in place ("Personation Officers") where candidates can have one of their agents present at the Polling Station to challenge the identity of any voter (i.e. to require them to show suitable ID to the Polling Clerk).  

That's the equivalent of random re-counts - it's not 100% of course, but it certainly discourages the practice being more widespread.

KEITH
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