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another take on electronic voting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed May 31 13:01:12 2000
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: 31 May 2000 11:57:32 -0400
Message-ID: <t537lcasoer.fsf@horowitz.ne.mediaone.net>
While we sit here and talk about integrity of voting systems,
receiptless systems, threat models, and strong crypto, I ran across
this:
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0%2C1510%2C16951%2C00.html
Major League Baseball's (MLB) All-Star Game has
been taking great pains to make sure fans don't hack,
hack, hack for the home team.
...
But All-Star officials are trying to reach that goal
without repeating last season's incident when a fan from
Carver, Massachusetts, tried to stuff 39,000 votes for
Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra through
the online balloting system.
Although I may risk insulting some people by saying this, All-Star
Game ballots don't have quite the significance as a vote for
President, MP, or Senator. But it's still telling to see how ignorant
(or apathetic, it's hard to distinguish) most people are of the issues
involved.
Marc
