Voting secrecy is not so secret
I found a link to a CNET article on Bruce Schneier's website:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/another_evoting.html
The link to the CNET article is:
http://news.com.com/E-voting+predicament+Not-so-secret+ballots/2100-1014_3-6203323.html
The article is talking about Ohio's e-voting laws. It seems that the electronic voting machines made by ESS time stamps every vote. This coupled with the fact that there is a record of order of votes, allows someone to figure out how you voted. From the article:
Ohio law permits anyone to walk into a county election office and obtain two crucial documents: a list of voters in the order they voted, and a time-stamped list of the actual votes. "We simply take the two pieces of paper together, merge them, and then we have which voter voted and in which way," said James Moyer, a longtime privacy activist and poll worker who lives in Columbus, Ohio.
How dumb can the Ohio Legislature be to pass a law like this?
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/another_evoting.html
The link to the CNET article is:
http://news.com.com/E-voting+predicament+Not-so-secret+ballots/2100-1014_3-6203323.html
The article is talking about Ohio's e-voting laws. It seems that the electronic voting machines made by ESS time stamps every vote. This coupled with the fact that there is a record of order of votes, allows someone to figure out how you voted. From the article:
Ohio law permits anyone to walk into a county election office and obtain two crucial documents: a list of voters in the order they voted, and a time-stamped list of the actual votes. "We simply take the two pieces of paper together, merge them, and then we have which voter voted and in which way," said James Moyer, a longtime privacy activist and poll worker who lives in Columbus, Ohio.
How dumb can the Ohio Legislature be to pass a law like this?