Gizmodo of the Day
The Perfect Electronic Voting System, Fraud-free
“David Bismark, a voting systems designer, thinks so, and gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2010 on an electronic voting system that he’s co-developed which contains a simple and reliable method of verifying the count. “We need to talk about elections in a new way; we need to talk about transparency and verifiability,” said Bismark.
The system outlined by Bismark consists of a ballot form, an encrypted 2D barcode, and a series of computers to do the grunt encryption work. The voting form comes with a perforation down the middle, with one side displaying a list of candidates in a random order, and the other showing the tick-boxes and unique-identifying barcode.
Once a person has marked their choice, the form is torn in half and the candidate list is shredded in the booth, leaving just your marks and the encrypted barcode that contains the information about what the boxes mean. That means that you’re the only person who knows how you voted. The poll station workers can then scan your form to get the data, and it can be stored centrally. It can even be published on a website so that anyone can verify the results.”
Duncan Greene, Wired.co.uk
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get the developers info, here
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