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- From: alain@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca (W.A.Simon)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Cryptographic voting
- Message-ID: <13992@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:43:30 GMT
- References: <9208172116.AA20035@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- <10370@ember.UUCP>
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- In <10370@ember.UUCP> pacolley@ember.UUCP (Paul Colley) says:
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- > In article <9208172116.AA20035@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- > Marc.Ringuette@daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu writes:
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- > >Thanks for the pointer, Ken. His scheme looks good. Here's a sketch:
- > > The election takes place between voters and k candidates, at least
- > > one of whom is assumed honest. Each voter communicates with all of
- > > the candidates in order to register and vote. [...]
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- > Ah, if only we could find an honest politician!
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- Whyever for? Party pooper!
- Graft, loot, spoils, are what politics is all about.
- Politics is the art of managing conflicts of interest.
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- Any system that posits honest politicians is bound to fail.
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- We should build all system (legal, electoral or otherwise)
- with the premises that human beings are not equally honest
- and that politics will appeal to those who are the least
- honest. Dishonesty is not a requirement, but it is a big
- motivation for entering politics, as well as a large part
- of the art of surviving in it.
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- A public key system has the benefit of not relying on
- honesty on anyone's part.
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- --
- The Vacuum Cleaner Man (reality sucks)
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