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

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:43:26PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Maybe "re-count" is the wrong term,
> but it would be easy to check the names of some people who are recently 
> deceased, see if their names remained on the electoral register,
> and check if they had apparently voted.

This problem is entirely orthoganal to Evoting. Since it affects
traditional and electonic voting equally, I'm not going to waste anyones
time discussing it here.

> > What constitutes a reasonable doubt? Gut feeling? Prior opinion
> > polls? What?
> 
> There isn't an algorithm for everything.

But do you have a proposal, and indication, an idea, anything in fact
which would aid someone to discern between what is a reasonable request
and what isnt?

In an election where candidate A gets 1600 votes, and candidate B gets
1400, how I guess whether tampering or error is likely or not?

I have nothing to go on other than the numbers. I don't have the source
code, I havn't seen anything being counted, there is just nothing to go
on. All that is left is blind faith.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net