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• A reply on Talk: David Bismark: E-voting without fraud

  Mar 25 2013: hm. what i found as extremely interesting was that the secret ballot was actually advocated and introduced by the politicians, not by the voters, and for a very specific reason indeed. that reason was the growing amount of money spent on procurement of the votes from the voters. eventually, it just became too expensive for parties to meet the constant rise in price of the votes, so they decided to introduce a secret ballot and stop bankrupting themselves in the election race. being slick as all politicians tend to be, introduction of the secret ballot rendered voter turnout from 90% down to 25-30% (varying from from state to state). since ordinary folks could no longer sell their vote and get a slice of the "election bonus", they rather went about other ways of putting bread on the table. this allowed political parties to win the elections by motivating (bribing or making empty promises left n right) just enough voters/supporters to satisfy the legitimate turnout quota (if there even was one), knowing that the rest of the unaffiliated folks will probably not show up in numbers large enough to compromise the result of the election..
  
  i'm not making this up, u can check it out here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1706490

• A reply on Talk: David Bismark: E-voting without fraud

  Mar 25 2013: I am sceptical about electronic voting, probably due to my lack of knowledge about how it works and how it can be tampered with, but calling any procedure, which involves humans, as fail-safe, is always a pretty bald statement. The chalkboard system you push so eagerly, first of all, sounds to me like a low voters turnout. Plus, I am curious about what happens during the period after the votes are cast and prior to return to the all hands chalkboard vote verification? During that time the serial code on the 2nd copy could be shown to a third party. That third party could be eager to buy votes or eager to terrorize the voter into voting for a particular candidate. once the eager beaver knows the serial code of the 2nd copy, anonymity goes out the door. now, that does not sound as fail-safe to me.
  
  as far as voting is concerned in general, bottom line is this:
  
  either you stop insisting on voters' anonymity and start insisting on politician's accountability, or you treasure your anonymity and keep pretending you live in a democracy.

• A reply on Talk: David Bismark: E-voting without fraud

  Mar 25 2013: I'm sorry, but how does this vote word compute as verifiable if you are not given anything in return that u can submit as proof in case that your vote has been counted wrong? this voteword works up to a point where you check the status of your vote, and as long as it is counted accurately, there should be no problems. however, what happens if you look up your vote and realize it has not been counted accurately? how does this voteword help you to take action in case of obvious error and make sure your vote is counted properly and that the error is rectified?