[ExI] trump's hormones

[Dave Sill]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:44 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why couldn't I use public key encryption? I digitally sign
> my completed ballot with my secret key, the one I generated when I first
> registered to vote, as proof that the ballot could only have come from me.
> Then I encrypt the message with the election office's public key ( and if I
> were a belt and suspenders sort of mood I could encrypt it a second time
> with my secret key) and then Email the entire thing to the election office,
> who after decoding it with their secret key (and perhaps with my public key
> if I encrypted it a second time) could then could publicly say "John Clark
> voted on this date and the following is is a record of how he voted that we
> encrypted with John Clark's public key so that can only be decrypted by his
> secret key that is available only to him so he can make sure everything is
> OK ."  I could then double check that there was no funny business going on.
>

This biggest problem I see with that is that it's not secret ballot: the
election office can see who voted for whom.

-Dave
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