Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System

I really like this type of innovation, but I don't understand this defense against "vote buying." Can't the vote purchaser require the voter to take a picture of the completed ballot with their camera? That's a pretty easy way to verify if they followed through on their vote. I do like all of the other transparency issues and checking your voting results online though.

I've been hoping for a cryptographic solution to the question of vote-counting integrity for a long time. This looks really promising (and, possibly, affordable). Hopefully we'll see wide adoption of systems like this, and can toss Diebold machines like the trash that they are.

Check out Ben Adida's posts about the audit process: <a href="http://benlog.com" rel="nofollow">http://benlog.com</a>