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

[Fergus O'Rourke]

Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote on Friday 10 September
2004:

>Someone argued that clever people might work out in some way
>how people had voted, and that this would be a disaster.
>I don't think anyone would risk several years in prison
>to get information of little or no practical value; so I don't think
>it is worth going to great lengths to prevent it.

I bet that you would find that a majority disagree with you on this.

>But it wouldn't be the end of the world if somebody did do this.

It would be the end of democracy as we have known it.

>There have been democratic systems where people voted openly,
>and which seemed to work as well as the present system.

Please specify where these so-called democratic systems operated.