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San Francisco Open Source Voting System Technical Advisory Committee Application

1 pointsby stonesixoneabout 8 years ago

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ddingusabout 8 years ago
How do they plan to resolve the voter intent trust problem?<p>When a voter makes a mark, the chain of trust between their intent and their voting record is complete. They know that record is an accurate expression of their intent.<p>When they provide input to a computer, their direct expression of intent is not stored, instead the record consists of whatever the computer understand their intent to be.<p>If it records anything at all! Their record ends up being a smudge on some input device.<p>There is no enduring record. In other systems, redundancy and public records help fill this gap.<p>Banking provides receipts and or redundant transaction records.<p>If the voting record is public, this would suffice, but a public record comes with it&#x27;s own issues.<p>Without this, there really isn&#x27;t a way for the voter to understand whether the record of their voter intent is both accurate and enduring.