EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Kathy Dopp
Organization : | National Election Data Archive
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1D
Page no. : | D-5
Line no.: | 6 - 9
Comment : | RE: Appendix D (your comment form does not permit Section: Appendix D or Section: D-1 to be entered) What is to prevent someone else from standing over the voter and likewise checking the choices of the voter so encourage vote-buying? If another person cannot know the voters' choices, then how can the voter know them? Verifying only that the ballot was counted, does not verify that its votes were counted correctly. Even verifying that the voter's ballot can read back the correct choices of the voter does not verify that the total sum of all the voters votes were added together correctly. What assurances are in place that the total count of all votes is correct? This encryption system does not seem to be logically correct. This encryption system does not seem to be a logical solution to ensuring the accuracy of the total vote counts or does not prevent vote buying.