Re: Worldwide Elections

Alex Alten (Alten@Home.Com)
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:07:13 -0500

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Interesting. Voting is more complex than it looks to the casual citizen.
There are several steps involved. Typically safeguards need to present
for most of them. US history is full of examples of voting fraud and abuse.
For example, I remember hearing about people from our suburb voting in
Chicago city elections. Some were dead.

1. Who is allowed to vote?
2. Who is allowed to run for office?
3. How are votes collected? If it is secret, how is anonymity preserved?
4. How are they delivered to the counting center?
5. Who can count them?

I'm sure there are other steps/issues to consider.

- Alex

At 10:39 AM 12/7/98 -0800, Jim Adler wrote:
>Last week there was an article in Wired about an Internet voting system
>being developed by Worldwide Elections
>(http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/16611.html). Not much
>mention was made of security. Does anyone know who these guys are and what
>security protocols they're using?
>
>Jim
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