IP: vote trading and Internet voting

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 02:22:48 -0800
>From: Ed Gerck <egerck@safevote.com>
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: vote trading and Internet voting
>
>
>Dave: Hi! This may interest your IP'ers]
>
>The question of the day is vote trading and using the Internet
>for vote trading.
>
>First, I would like to point out that this action is occurring with
>*paper ballots* and shows that the Internet is this train that is
>changing our lives whether we follow the ostrich approach or not. So,
>those that do not want Internet voting because they do not want the
>Internet to change the way they vote, are just trying to bury their
>heads in the  sand and ignore this train that is coming, ever closer.
>
>Much better, IMO, is to face the situation with all problems and
>also potential solutions in order to advance voting to the Internet
>age.  Fraudsters and interested sides are already doing so. Serious
>tests are being done, like the test contracted with Safevote by the
>California Secretary of State and being carried out in Contra Costa
>County -- with an open call and inside information to help attackers
>[see http://www.safevote.com/tech.htm ]
>
>I also think that enforcement of no vote trading would require as a
>minimum a violation of individual privacy.  This poses a considerable
>problem in an area where, yes, there should be no compromise when
>voting is considered.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ed Gerck