Re:How Estonia became a leader in technology
by bgarbiak on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:00AM
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I wonder how any e-voting system could provide both anonymity of the vote and a secure access ("one person, one vote")? To provide the latter you've got to login somewhere, right? And to stay anonymous you can't leave any identity trace.
In Estonia the voter has to login using her/his personal ID card so there's no anonymity at all?
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Re:How Estonia became a leader in technology
by Tankenstein on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:59AM
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Read the spec, it's basically storing the vote in a completely encrypted state. Once counting starts, the personal information is destroyed (literally, i know the guy, he takes the hard drives and bashes them until they are completely powder pretty much), and the votes are unencrypted. Once you start counting, there is no way to know whose vote is who. (It's actually much more difficult, but it's based on mail voting. I'm a bad source on this, read the spec. Everything is open-source.)
Re:How Estonia became a leader in technology
by marcosdumay on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:37PM
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You can make pseudonyms by letting people carry a public key to be signed by the same kind of organization that currently oversees voting (around here, 5 randomly chosen people per urn).
That'd be completely useless for preventing people from proving how they voted, but is sufficient obfuscation for preventing the votes from becoming public.