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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:37
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:41:35 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Alex Alten wrote:
> Interesting. Voting is more complex than it looks to the casual citizen.
>
> 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?
Actually, before you do that there's the problem of getting your
citizenry, which from a crypto standpoint are just a bunch of meat
popsicles, to have digitally based pseudonyms (even if the digital
identity has the same 'name' it's still a very different animal for
verification purposes.)
Now, how exactly digitally based pseudonyms work, that's a whole other
matter.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:37