- This is a mathematically elegant approach, and the author is to be commended.
- The legal challenges impeding implementation would be staggering.
"Each ballot has a randomized order – this means that a right-hand ballot alone can’t reveal who the vote was cast for."
This may be legally possible in some areas, but none with which I'm familiar. The ballot has to be known and printed weeks in advance of the election. The costs are already huge. Managing randomized hard-copy ballots is going to be a tough sell.
There's just a bit more afoot here than (admittedly splendid) abstract mathematical exercises.
This is actually addressed -- votes can be made on a computer where ballot options are ordered then printed on a receipt in the same ballot format but with randomized order.
Please understand: a large number of people want a printed, paper ballot. Excellent though the mathematical architecture may be, the fish don't want no bicycles.
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For a more thorough review, two points:
- This is a mathematically elegant approach, and the author is to be commended.
- The legal challenges impeding implementation would be staggering.
This may be legally possible in some areas, but none with which I'm familiar. The ballot has to be known and printed weeks in advance of the election. The costs are already huge. Managing randomized hard-copy ballots is going to be a tough sell.
There's just a bit more afoot here than (admittedly splendid) abstract mathematical exercises.
This is actually addressed -- votes can be made on a computer where ballot options are ordered then printed on a receipt in the same ballot format but with randomized order.
Again: great tech.
Please understand: a large number of people want a printed, paper ballot. Excellent though the mathematical architecture may be, the fish don't want no bicycles.