secure e-voting

[DetlefK]

The European Institute for System Security (EISS) at the university of Karlsruhe (GER) has developed a new method to guarantee fair and re-countable electronic elections.
The first real-world-test to this method will take place next week in the elections of the students' parliament of the university.

This method is called BingoVoting, as it relies on a random-number-generator to certify your vote's printed voucher. The random-number-generator is easier to protect, than the whole election computer.

links:
http://www.bingovoting.de/material.html

also mentioned in a book:
Jens-Matthias Bohli, Jörn Müller-Quade, Stefan Röhrich: "Bingo Voting: Secure and coercion-free voting using a trusted random number generator", Vote-ID 2007, Bochum, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4896, Pages 111-124, Springer-Verlag, 2007

[Peace Patriot]

1. The simplest, cheapest, most secure voting security: 100% handcount of

paper ballots--whether of electronic voting paper ballot backup, or a straight paper ballot system.

More technology means more cost--and more cost, and more complication, has, so far, been accompanied by astronomically increased risk of quick, invisible, massive vote stealing.

And you have to ask: Why were extremely insecure, insider riggable e-voting systems installed in the first place? And after you choke over the answers to that highly relevant question, we need to ask: Is MORE private technology really the answer? More billions and billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the very election theft industry that has fucked us over, time and again?

IF we were in a pristine situation, with no bloody history--say, with the half a million-plus dead people in Iraq still alive--maybe I'd go for "BingoVoting." But we're not. We're in a royally fucked over situation, with lots and lots and lots of dead people, and tortured people, and a looted treasury, and a shredded Constitution, and an extremely corrupt opposition party, and we need to pull back to the simple, old-fashioned principle of COUNTING EVERY VOTE.