In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting

Re:In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting by mtone on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:22PM (#18007890)

Couldn't the receipt of votes be an encrypted result derived from the voter's key for which only the government/district has the private key ? It would not show the vote but only guarantee that your vote has not been modified. You could go to the government to get the vote confirmed privately.

Ideally, assuming you would be voting with a key linked to your identity (SIN), both the IDs of voters and their votes could be entirely public and on your receipt.

The act of counting votes would be for a set of parties to be work with only the public list and given the private key(s) to generate results. The trust there should be similar to counting paper ballots, especially if independent parties combine subsets and arrive at the same result.

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Re:In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting by smileysteve on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:56PM (#18009998)

Yes, that would be possible; but is significantly beyond what people typically mean when they say "just give me receipt"

> Ideally, assuming you would be voting with a key linked to your identity (SIN), both the IDs of voters and their votes could be entirely public and on your receipt.

What piece of your identity does your employer not have access to? In the U.S. they've typically seen your id, your passport, your pay stubs, your health insurance.

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