Maryland Town Tests New Cryptographic Voting System 227
ceswiedler writes "In Tuesday's election voters in Takoma Park, MD used a new cryptographic voting system designed by David Chaum with researchers from several universities including MIT and the University of Maryland. Voters use a special ink to mark their ballots, which reveals three-digit codes which they can later check against a website to verify their vote was tallied. Additionally, anyone can download election data from a Subversion repository and verify the overall accuracy of the results without seeing the actual choices of any individual voter."
first vote! (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Interesting, but... (Score:2, Funny)
I know the Florida ballot count debacle wasn't all that long ago, but are we that concerned about votes not being counted?
If we were concerned about people's votes not being counted would we be testing a Cryptic New Voting System? ... Oops sorry, Freudian misread.
I think I know what the 3 letter code is... (Score:2, Funny)
Let's hope that this new system prevents premature revelation of election results... [youtube.com]
Re:Very interesting stuff. (Score:1, Funny)
Ya, they should be using git anyway. Like gitmo is where you go if you tamper with the votes.
Re:Great on paper - but in real life? (Score:1, Funny)
This system assumes three things:
I voted the parent post down as a troll, but instead the Slashcode modded it up as "funny"...what the hell? I demand this site be taken down until the parent post is rated -1 Troll as it has been voted.